From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NNuuE-0003gi-LK for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:07:34 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NNuuD-0003gL-Gc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:07:33 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NNuu9-0003cm-6u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:07:33 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45238 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NNuu9-0003cg-1D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:07:29 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:44993 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NNuu8-000110-HS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:07:28 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNuu7-0008SL-1u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:07:27 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNuu6-0003AM-Fh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:07:26 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:07:26 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091224210726.GC12122@thorin> References: <20091207150831.GA8047@thorin> <4B201BC7.2050703@gmail.com> <20091209220351.GJ7093@thorin> <4B202212.2090201@gmail.com> <20091210010103.GC15546@thorin> <998914.30654.qm@web113201.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4B2567AB.3040107@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B2567AB.3040107@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: my plan for Multiboot 2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:07:33 -0000 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