From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DuYZu-0000EG-6W for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:34:50 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DuYZp-0000AG-MJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:34:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DuYZm-00007a-Mo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:34:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuYZm-00006y-8C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:34:42 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DuYgY-0007GC-Ff for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:41:42 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0E18B69 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:32:24 +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 24647-08 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:39:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DECB8B3E for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:32:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2A9C046 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:32:22 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200507171739.31922.okuji@enbug.org> <4cb126a7b4c84b969c8959bf8fb239af@penguinppc.org> <42DBCAF8.4070209@iinet.net.au> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:32:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42DBCAF8.4070209@iinet.net.au> (James Buchanan's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:30:00 +1000") Message-ID: <87d5pgoz18.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (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: release planning 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: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:34:47 -0000 James Buchanan writes: Hi James, > Would be nice to have GRUB2 for the IA-64 as well. Intel documents > the Extensible Firmware Interface and makes a lot of docs and tools > available, plus driver writer guides and oodles of examples. Right, I completely agree. It is wise to make the EFI code as generic as possible so it can be used for other (non-IA64) EFI systems. The sme is currently done for the IEEE 1275 code (Open Firmware). > I might be lucky enough to have an IA-64 system (HP workstation, > Itanium2 900MHz, 2GB RAM, 2x 36GB SCSI-3 disks, picked up second hand > on eBay...) later this week. It's interesting enough for me to have > spent the last 5 hours transfixed by the docs. :) Nice box! please tell us if you need any help or visit our IRC channel. > I'll be sure to hack up the GRUB2 sources for IA-64 and give it a go. Good luck :) -- Marco