From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Update on video subsystem draft
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:16:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vex3lvgo.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43B7E601.8020209@nic.fi> (Vesa Jääskeläinen's message of "Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:24:01 +0200")
Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:
>> For a GNU project VMWare is absolutely not an option. You are of
>> course free to do whatever you like, but it is not something that can
>> be documented.
>
> Well I don't even run a Linux natively on this system :). I use VMware a
> lot for different things on this system, so for me it is natural to also
> develop grub2 on this configuration.
>
> But there are open source systems like bochs and others that might
> support also virtual serial ports/nic's or so that can also be used on
> VMware. Serial debugging could be a nice feature.
Perhaps bochs or qemu would work.
> May I ask why that cannot be documented? Of course I can provide this
> information on my own website if required.
Because for a GNU project references in official documentation to
non-free software is not allowed. Of course you are free to put on
your website whatever you want to put there :-). But I seriously doubt
that vmware has the debugging features bochs has.
--
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-01 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-31 1:39 Update on video subsystem draft Vesa Jääskeläinen
2005-12-31 15:54 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-12-31 16:34 ` Marco Gerards
2006-01-01 14:24 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2006-01-01 17:16 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
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