From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FXwDj-0004kJ-IO for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:14:59 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXwDh-0004iq-AE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:14:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXwDf-0004id-SK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:14:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXwDf-0004iZ-Fq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:14:55 -0400 Received: from [193.144.10.29] (helo=relay3.udl.es) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FXwFr-0000PA-5O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:17:11 -0400 Received: from jupiter.udl.net (jupiter.udl.net [172.16.2.2]) by relay3.udl.es (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3O8EYUj003814 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:14:44 +0200 Received: from [172.16.2.184] (eup35_04 [172.16.2.184]) by jupiter.udl.net (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k3O83ef00437 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:03:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <444C8662.1080908@raulete.net> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:03:46 +0200 From: adrian15 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <200604201254.k3KCslFP009167@dell01.dinaserver.com> In-Reply-To: <200604201254.k3KCslFP009167@dell01.dinaserver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1421/Sun Apr 23 20:31:05 2006 on relay3.udl.es X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Parted/GRUB joint-venture 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: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:14:57 -0000 > Hello, > > I am the representative of GNU Parted and am also interested in the > development of GRUB2 (I've been lurking on this list for some months). > James from the GNU SoC team wrote me: > < There is a project suggestion relating to GRUB which relates to > libparted. Please get in touch with the maintainers of GRUB (e.g. > Yoshinori K. Okuji) to discuss that project and ensure it has the best > chance of getting good guidance and is successful. The project > doesn't have to end up in just GRUB or just Parted, it's just that I'm > looking to make sure that the idea works well and flourishes. > EOQ I do not know if okuji has talked to you directly. Have you seen this? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html Parted integration Integrate GNU Parted's library (libparted) with GRUB so that we can make use of the full power of the Parted's functionality at boot time. Parted supports creation, deletion, resizing of partitions and filesystems. These features are extremely useful when you get troubled or have a complicated boot environment. Because libparted uses some external libraries, you will have to think how to make things run on the GRUB's environment, where you cannot use POSIX or Unix system calls. This should be implemented as an optional dynamic module by using the module loading feature in GRUB 2. adrian15