From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HUXaC-0007Fb-8S for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:24:40 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HUXaA-0007F1-HZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:24:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HUXa9-0007Ee-4j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:24:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HUXa8-0007Eb-TJ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:24:36 -0500 Received: from neonescio.viaisn.org ([82.94.249.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HUXYH-0004mT-Tp; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:22:42 -0400 Received: from 206-236-045-062.dynamic.caiway.nl ([62.45.236.206] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx) by neonescio.viaisn.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32 CV=0) (Exim 4.50 #1) id 1HUXYF-0004oU-RW; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:22:39 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx ident=jeroen) by dijkstra.dekkers.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HUXXv-0003kB-2M; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:22:19 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:22:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87zm64kdvo.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <200703230044.16884.okuji@enbug.org> References: <4600d7ad.0fbdf68c.519b.057c@mx.google.com> <873b3wlwq4.wl@dekkers.cx> <200703230044.16884.okuji@enbug.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.95 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 Cc: summer-of-code@gnu.org, xiongyi Subject: Re: Question about the GNU Grub ideas 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: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:24:38 -0000 At Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:44:16 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:49, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > I am a potential student applicant for the "Google-summer -of -code" > > > program. And I am strongly interested in the GNU Grub project, especially > > > for the porting grubs to the EFI-based PC platform idea. But there are > > > few messages or information about EFI porting for grub2. So I have some > > > questions about this idea. > > > > I don't have any experience with EFI, but as far as I know GRUB2 > > already boots on intel macs and other EFI-based x86 machines. Although > > it probably still needs a lot of work, that isn't going to be enough > > for a Summer of Code project. > > Why not enough? EFI has a significant amount of share in the market, and I see > nothing bad with working on EFI stuff. > > I have already written the status in the wiki: > > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnEFI > > In addition, we need Multiboot support on EFI as well. The question is whether it's possible to formulate a project big enough for Summer of Code and that also has clear goals, given that the basic implementation of the port is already done? But I don't know anything about EFI, so if you say that's possible than it's okay with me. Jeroen Dekkers