From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DoOuw-0001mI-PS for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:03:06 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoOus-0001ij-V7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:03:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoOun-0001dS-0K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:02:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoOum-0001dA-Rf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:02:56 -0400 Received: from [81.56.128.63] (helo=xiii.metz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoOyb-0002vN-Hc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:06:53 -0400 Received: from joebar.metz ([192.168.0.4] ident=ludo) by xiii.metz with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DoOtQ-00029F-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:01:32 +0200 Message-ID: <42C576EC.1090908@linbox.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:01:32 +0200 From: Ludovic Drolez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <42C410AE.1030707@linbox.com> <871x6iq0f1.fsf@student.han.nl> <42C53A74.4090202@linbox.com> <200507011816.51627.okuji@enbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200507011816.51627.okuji@enbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Broken A20 gate handling (about GPL) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:03:05 -0000 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > In the case of the A20, I'm not sure how I want to implement it. It is not > that bad to use syslinux code, because we have our own alternative. However, > this code is very critical, and I prefer writing our own code. After all, my > opinion looks like the same as Marco. :p Yes this code is critical, as you see flaws in this code makes grub unusable on new PCs (freeze without *any* error message). Since it's the most critical part of grub, why simply not use the most stable code available for A20 handling: the linux kernel ? Moreover, IMHO, it makes no sense trying to rewrite such low level functions, since there are not hundreds ways of writing it ! Cheers, -- Ludovic DROLEZ