From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Hggly-0000D1-NQ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:39:02 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgglw-0000BQ-GW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:39:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgglu-00009b-S3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:38:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgglu-00009R-GN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:38:58 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.33]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgggH-0007OW-8J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:33:09 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3PCX1DF038706; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:33:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <8c0c43de0704210717q3e2cc21wfb2e4c4a23d049be@mail.gmail.com> <462E633A.1030802@aon.at> <20070424201743.GB6125@coresystems.de> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:38:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070424201743.GB6125@coresystems.de> (Stefan Reinauer's message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:17:43 +0200") Message-ID: <87647k6345.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Cc: Patrick Georgi Subject: Re: My Summer of Code Project 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 Apr 2007 12:39:00 -0000 Stefan Reinauer writes: > * Devils-Hawk [070424 22:06]: >> You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe >> you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable >> CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately >> its x86 only, although some work has been done to get it running on PPC. > > FILO has been used on PPC for quite some time. For simplicity, that > version has been integrated into LinuxBIOS directly though. > > There is a GSoC project for porting Grub2 to work in LinuxBIOS. It will > be realized by Patrick Georgi . > > Maybe you guys can join efforts on solving this issue? > > I would like to see FILO die. Which will happen once GRUB2 will work on > an x86 machine without 16bit real mode legacy BIOS. Hopefully your student will send in patches to grub-devel. Although I will not have a lot of time next few months, I will make sure I will review these patches and answer questions from both students. Or do you want to wait with this until the project is finished? Whatever you prefer to do, I think it is wise that we cooperate closely to make sure both SoC projects succeed (as in: code applied to CVS at the end). -- Marco