From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EKfe2-0002Qi-7R for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:23:02 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKfdb-0002GI-3M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:22:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKfdT-0002Bl-RA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:22:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKfdR-0002A5-JM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:22:25 -0400 Received: from [208.176.144.228] (helo=ns1.pwrseries.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EKfaY-0008GR-1t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:19:28 -0400 Received: from jmd (w238.z208176144.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [208.176.144.238]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.pwrseries.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j8SGuXYu026921 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:56:33 -0700 From: "Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.)" To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:19:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <433A6E2A.9923.444F05@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200509281107.j8SB7MYu026483@ns1.pwrseries.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Re: Is Disk-on-Chip (DOC) support planned? 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: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:22:38 -0000 On 28 Sep 2005 at 4:07, grub-devel-request@gnu.org wrote: > The patch you are talking about is for GRUB Legacy, this mailinglist > is about GRUB 2. That's right. I would hope that any work I do now wouldn't become obsolete tomorrow. Maybe the next day, but not tomorrow! > Personally I wouldn't mind such support. Can you please describe what > this support means? I assume it is just a filesystem that needs to be > supported? I don't have the hardware, but implementing the filesystem > should be easy if someone can give me an image of a filesystem. The Grub Legacy DOC patch did a couple things: first at adds some configuration options regarding DOC support, most importantly an option to bypass the DOC boot code and boot "normally" by holding down the ctrl key while booting. Secondly it contains code to create a firmware image of grub that is loaded into the "boot sector" of the DOC device. - Joe