From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HgghE-0003mP-Eh for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:34:08 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgghC-0003iL-2L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:34:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgghA-0003gZ-QJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:34:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgghA-0003gK-M9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:34:04 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.28]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HggbX-0006ey-FK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:28:15 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3PCSEMW093781 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:28:14 +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> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:33:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <462E633A.1030802@aon.at> (Devils-Hawk's message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:06:18 +0200") Message-ID: <87abww63c4.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 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 12:34:06 -0000 Devils-Hawk writes: > 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. Hah! There is even a better project to look at ;-) http://code.google.com/soc/coresystems/appinfo.html?csaid=A64F3E060F47221 It is not yet completed, but these two projects have a great overlap. That said, I know that for summer of code (I am a student with a SoC project myself, although I won't work on GRUB 2) it's about writing code. It is not a problem if code is duplicated, although you can better talk about this with Jeroen and Okuji because they are the mentors. As maintainer I just prefer the best code and the biggest amount of features and maintainability. Don't be afraid to write an IDE driver yourself. I do not think it is *that* hard. I estimate it takes you just a few weeks when you are completely unexperienced. There is a lot of documentation about this and you are certainly not the first person working on this. -- Marco