From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ERuHd-0006h5-Q8 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:25:49 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERuHb-0006er-Rs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:25:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERuHa-0006cv-9i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:25:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERuHa-0006cj-5v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:25:46 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERuHa-0008Hq-4a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:25:46 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CD78C99 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12903-03 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BE682C4 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EECC04A for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20051018133821.987E39000B@www.strato-webmail.de> <87ach6hkxv.fsf@student.han.nl> <20051018181738.3c7e11a6.dr@jones.dk> From: Marco Gerards Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:25:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20051018181738.3c7e11a6.dr@jones.dk> (Jonas Smedegaard's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:17:38 +0200") Message-ID: <8764ruhjw6.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: USB kernel driver 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: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:25:48 -0000 Jonas Smedegaard writes: > How about borrowing from etherboot? > > NIC drivers were borrowed from there in the past - is that (gonna be) > the case with v2 as well? > > Perhaps it would be relevant to share some of their work on getting USB > NICs to work as well? Etherboot has USB drivers? Etherboot is easier because it has to function in about the same circumstances as GRUB does. So that would be possible. I wonder how portable the etherboot drivers are to architectures like the PPC and sparc. -- Marco