From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.34) id 1BQRis-0007Ze-Oz for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:07:06 -0400 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQRiq-0007ZA-5R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:07:04 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQRiJ-0007VL-6P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:07:03 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQRiI-0007Uw-Oe for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:06:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10C9887E; Wed, 19 May 2004 16:06:27 +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 04639-09; Wed, 19 May 2004 16:06:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4597B91C5; Wed, 19 May 2004 16:06:20 +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 063BAC04C; Wed, 19 May 2004 15:06:19 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: Jotinha References: <4d02df85a1f9da3ac7d0f5f2329e07b4@200.162.228.129> From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:08:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4d02df85a1f9da3ac7d0f5f2329e07b4@200.162.228.129> (jaimedias@paralelo27.com.br's message of "Tue, 18 May 2004 23:32:45 -0300") Message-ID: <87zn84v79z.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 Cc: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: Re: (no subject) 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: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:07:05 -0000 Jotinha writes: > does grub2 will support Amiga FFS and Amiga Partitions (RDB)? Not yet. A week ago I sent an email to this list about filesystems that will be supported. I forgot adding FFS to this list. But I am certainly willing to add it, mainly because I planned porting GRUB 2 to the amiga after the PC version and apple version (ieee1275) work. So if Okuji is not fully against an amiga port (m68k), you can expect one. That is including everything you can logically expect from it. Three things might be useful to me: - Documentation about Amiga FFS (I read a book about it, but that was ~7 years ago and I don't have access to it anymore). I still have to look for information using google, I think it is easy to find. - If the videocard is directly programmed we need to add support for videocards (and not just OCS, ECS and AGA). It might be better to use the available libraries at first. IIRC there is a library with useful functions for that loaded by kickstart. Ideas are welcome. - Testers when it is done. I think an amiga port would be quite easy. Especially because I have experience with both the amiga and porting GRUB 2. It just will take some time before GRUB 2 is quite usable, even on the PC. Another thing I am bothered with is that multiboot is PC only. The last problem is that we need a somewhat more general partition scheme. So all partition schemes can be mixed. I think linux already has that. We already have support for PC style partitions, BSD slices and apple style partitions. Hopefully you asked your question with the amiga in mind. If that was not true, please tell me what you need Amiga FFS and RDB for. -- Marco