From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: my plan for Multiboot 2
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:07:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091224210726.GC12122@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B2567AB.3040107@gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:16:11PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Bogdan wrote:
> > Is it just me or does this whole thing on abandoning Multiboot 2 seem like a terrible idea? (That's a retorical question since I've already talked to several people in the OSDev community about it.) The only reason why people still use Multiboot is because it's the best we've got. It's not flexible and it's way behind the needs of current OSes.
> >
> >
> It's a misunderstanding. We don't abandon multiboot2. The draft we want
> to discard isn't much better than multiboot1. But we will develop
> multiboot1 in a way to become multiboot2 and to correspond to the need
> of OSes.
Definitely. We're driven by the needs of OS kernel developers. We're not
going to let legacy junk get in the way.
--
Robert Millan
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-24 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 15:08 my plan for Multiboot 2 Robert Millan
2009-12-07 16:53 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-12-09 21:50 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-09 21:51 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-09 22:03 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-09 22:17 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-10 1:01 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-10 7:06 ` BVK Chaitanya
2009-12-13 8:13 ` Bogdan
2009-12-13 22:16 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-24 21:07 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-12-24 21:11 ` Robert Millan
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