From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuIX-0006Ul-PL for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:03:26 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuIU-0006TM-RQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:03:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuIS-0006SZ-5p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:03:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcuIR-0006SO-I5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:03:19 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcuGx-000104-Er for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:01:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE27A586 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06447-04 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:25:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2553C90E5 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:52:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (a82-92-27-129.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21593C04A for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:52:10 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20040621180005.GA11079@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <87u0x4c6hq.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <20040622113322.GA21527@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> From: Marco Gerards Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:52:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040622113322.GA21527@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (Tomas Ebenlendr's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:33:22 +0200") Message-ID: <87eko7wetu.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: normal mode chainloader X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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, 22 Jun 2004 23:03:24 -0000 ebik@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Tomas Ebenlendr) writes: >> Why is the dependency of the on boot.mod required? > > Because users will be confused if they can do some loader cmd and can't > boot cmd. No other reason. This will be fixed by the autoloading that was proposed on the list. If someone uses the boot command, the boot.mod will be autoloaded. So I think it is not a requirement. >> > P.P.S. I saw somewhere (in archive) that I should probably subscribe >> > something for FSF. ... >> >> That is right. We need copyright assignments for GRUB. It is >> required so the FSF can defend copyright violations and prevent other >> legal problems (remember SCO? ;)). >> > O.k. how? I think Okuji should take care of that... >> Can you please read the GCS? I don' like commenting much on a patch >> that looks quite good. ;) > > I have read it, but I'm used on another coding style, which we used for > our school project. (There are some things in GCS which we disagree.) > I will write better code after about 500 lines with GCS. Ok, I have the same problems sometimes. Hopefully you won't mind if I continue sending comments in the meanwhile. Thanks, Marco