From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Full documentation for GRUB2
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:20:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D944758.2050202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2913A42B-33C4-4FE1-8826-52626032F566@colorremedies.com>
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On 29.03.2011 17:58, Chris Murphy wrote:
> It is not due to laziness that Red Hat continues to hack GRUB Legacy, even for EFI support.
>
>
It's very recent that GRUB2 is suitable for production use. Versions
prior to 1.97 aren't suitable for anything else than use by a coder.
When Red Hat needed EFI support, GRUB2 wasn't in a state to be included
in a distro, so they did with what they had at the time. And switching
bootloader isn't an easy task. Even if bootloader itself would be
written in mathematically proven correct code, you'll still hit problems
when you discover bugs in firmwares in question. So distros are
reluctant to move to a new codebase
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenkoh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 15:06 Full documentation for GRUB2 Treutwein Bernhard
2011-03-24 18:32 ` kf
2011-03-26 7:03 ` Jordan Uggla
2011-03-29 15:19 ` Patrick Strasser
2011-03-29 15:58 ` Chris Murphy
2011-03-31 6:19 ` Bruce Dubbs
2011-03-31 9:20 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2011-03-29 17:09 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-30 1:18 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-03-30 1:28 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-30 1:57 ` Bruce Dubbs
2011-03-30 2:01 ` Isaac Dupree
2011-03-30 2:25 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-31 1:15 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-03-31 7:51 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-31 13:59 ` richardvoigt
2011-03-31 14:24 ` Colin Watson
2011-04-01 10:42 ` Robert Wolf
2011-04-06 14:12 ` Treutwein Bernhard
2011-03-31 8:39 ` Isaac Dupree
2011-03-31 8:58 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-31 10:21 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-31 11:22 ` Patrick Strasser
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2011-04-08 9:21 ` Treutwein Bernhard
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