From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LcIQN-0007fu-G2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:59:39 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcIQK-0007f9-NT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:59:36 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcIQJ-0007eb-4k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:59:36 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37052 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcIQJ-0007eX-0d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:59:35 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:39078) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LcIQI-0000OJ-Fk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:59:34 -0500 Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so3732138fxm.18 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:59:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CkKkX8/8iQR4Dx4lmYvELeLi3PDSG8EkFQfcHIIABaQ=; b=RkLVDe7j1kOND46QxL76VbpbviSMotrDcPSEDmOcftq8CvZWfinBHV5n5qaAlgjGQs Nmbq3r+lgpyW6j676S2bHVXLOkVlqWIebUz9xjt12kaSLq77iP5IyBKmLQ9lY4tEXq7y tIUEP/nusLHbM/aiWiLB6f70d1q7+hIoEGaZs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=seSW9BGACXxPALxZ1/3Cd/Tqc1VxAD/0HXZu3rW6NHJTymgYl5sK/TXOW7jBJUm4/c +/r1MbWRl5l1SpVud8bqrEIQtzs3GnpwZjBf6xOfvfFWio8o+qvIEPNPnknVgkFtpZ4S 2Q7lP/AMMK03BipEk+I/RXwTz61Uc/JzPeFJ4= Received: by 10.223.127.8 with SMTP id e8mr829423fas.80.1235563172264; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:59:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?82.130.81.41? (etx-public-dock-41-dhcp.ethz.ch [82.130.81.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm12038157fkx.39.2009.02.25.03.59.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:59:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49A532A3.1090007@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:59:31 +0100 From: phcoder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <49A50DA2.20604@netsyncro.com> In-Reply-To: <49A50DA2.20604@netsyncro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09 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, 25 Feb 2009 11:59:37 -0000 Hello. Marco Gerards already agreed that this port is ok. I made some investigations into their code and have to say that it won't be just a port. It seems that some features (e.g. directory listing) are missing. It also uses dirty tricks which limit their code to one opened file in time. All this has to be addressed. I was planning to do ZFS however now my studies take more time than I thought they would and so if it's ok for maintainers to put it on summer of code or if someone wants to do this port, it's ok with me. Some other ideas: HID: -bluetooth keyboard -mouse support More graphics drivers FS: -btrfs -Hammer (dragonflybsd) Network -TFTP -TCP/IP --NFS --SMB --AFP --FTP --HTTP (last two would allow plain grub2 used to install linux distribution by just pointing at right internet server) -TFTP Firewire Scripts: -Finish scripting engine, loops, functions, pipes,... -Runtime autoconfig which scans all the drives and creates a list of detected OS. Very useful for demonstrations and recovery Realmode hooks including map and memdisk Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko C. Bergström wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I'm not a grub developer, but I'm interested to try to spur some ideas > around how grub could benefit from participating in the 09 GSoC. My > initial ideas are selfish and seeing if there's any interest to have the > zfs support ported from sun's fork to grub 2 upstream. I've checked the > licensing on the files and it does say GPL 2+ or something like that. > > Anyone have any other ideas? Interested to help mentor? The deadline > is around the corner so if planning hasn't happened yet it should start > soon. > > Thanks > > ./Christopher > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko