Re: Summer of Code mailing lists and ideas

Re: Summer of Code mailing lists and ideas

[Robert Millan]

Hi!

I checked in a few of ideas in the GRUB web site (also updated it removed some
obsolete stuff).  Would be nice if you can review them and comment/improve
before mentioning them to summer-of-code@gnu.org.  They are:

USB support
ATA (parallel and serial)
Accessing encrypted partitions
Localisation infrastructure

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Re: Summer of Code mailing lists and ideas

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 20 March 2008 16:19, Robert Millan wrote:
> I checked in a few of ideas in the GRUB web site (also updated it removed
> some obsolete stuff).  Would be nice if you can review them and
> comment/improve before mentioning them to summer-of-code@gnu.org.  They
> are:
>
> USB support
> ATA (parallel and serial)
> Accessing encrypted partitions
> Localisation infrastructure

I think they are quite nice.

Thanks,
Okuji

Re: Summer of Code mailing lists and ideas

[Marco Gerards]

Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I checked in a few of ideas in the GRUB web site (also updated it removed some
> obsolete stuff).  Would be nice if you can review them and comment/improve
> before mentioning them to summer-of-code@gnu.org.  They are:
>
> USB support
> ATA (parallel and serial)
> Accessing encrypted partitions
> Localisation infrastructure

Great!  I have written two applications I will submit next week.  Here
are both abstracts:


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Network support
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

During Summer of Code 2008 I will (when I am accepted) implement
networking support for GRUB 2.  This will make it possible to netboot
from GRUB 2.  In order to make this possible I will have to implement
a TCP/IP stack and some GRUB commands.  The following features will be
implemented as part of this project:

- Ethernet
- IPv4
- UDP
- DHCP
- TFTP
- ifconfig
- Multiplatform and easy to port
- Debuggable in grub-emu using TUN/TAP

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
USB Support
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
During Summer of Code 2008 I will (when I am accepted) implement USB
support for GRUB 2.  After finishing this project, GRUB 2 will support
(at least) one host controller, mass storage devices and USB
keyboards.

- Generic USB interfaces
- Host controller driver (OHCI, UHCI or EHCI)
- USB Mass-storage support
- HID support for USB keyboards


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Marco