From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5E3X-0005lO-5I for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:20:43 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46509 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5E3T-0005g5-SO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:20:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5E3O-0004xj-R9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:20:39 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:56008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5E3O-0004xS-LY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:20:34 -0400 Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so4836379wwi.0 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:20:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=QQagbOmxXTS105CWmSShYMvm2cV6zk7UNIAc/nM0sYI=; b=mdF7uM/e7Licw3wk5Pmi93YlEaOs9ncyWm/sslWYYT7GoCRxXJmXua0jDHV5d22gVz yZuEBi556SExfyYyUHJfH4AJc9SgDUPEyoqHwUSxovBmC2/3Itu2U9ey+oMBYRz2m4NA JjssVSnnVnQf4qYkvQ9AS0ZYBRA1ZEy4va1o4= 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:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=vdAT2YDNwH/iGBebPTTq3bWps6P3unGTdb9i4i7YI42+tyJJyRGcpZFUcdTLxILe9s AhX04ltVhG/G/nCQLRU++bwODWACpHLXjJ8TNlzTmn8rFED3TV9FAzvFJu77Hx20qDD4 /KVNyZIkb9nrUHjWAMmfgo9CUNqnbgdNne9pA= Received: by 10.216.143.228 with SMTP id l78mr2406796wej.21.1301563233681; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs09.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r80sm408142wei.39.2011.03.31.02.20.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D944758.2050202@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:20:24 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110303 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <239CEBDEE83EB949A48B6DB812AA19F602C47A30@ex2.zuv.uni-muenchen.de> <2913A42B-33C4-4FE1-8826-52626032F566@colorremedies.com> In-Reply-To: <2913A42B-33C4-4FE1-8826-52626032F566@colorremedies.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig886A9DF8D2EED26AA6FD74CE" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.41 Subject: Re: Full documentation for GRUB2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:20:41 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig886A9DF8D2EED26AA6FD74CE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29.03.2011 17:58, Chris Murphy wrote: > It is not due to laziness that Red Hat continues to hack GRUB Legacy, e= ven for EFI support. > > =20 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 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenkoh --------------enig886A9DF8D2EED26AA6FD74CE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk2UR1gACgkQNak7dOguQglMDAD/TM/QZio2ZRK1S2IVroXrmyIw Wf7/rGXEbaOJBv5HyRgA/0KbbVqNJh8fj9hJu3QJboFQhUEjHGug86MuwUJB7Tl7 =VmmQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig886A9DF8D2EED26AA6FD74CE--