On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:02:39AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 1) We don't want optional features that require support for more than one
> > piece of hardware except network cards. I.e. sounds are Ok as long as you
> > don't have to add support for different sound cards (e.g. only PC Speaker
> > is used). Graphics is Ok as long as it's for VGA.
>
> Why is there an exception? If you permit one exception, why can't
> you permit two exceptions? That sounds somewhat strange to me.
Especially since some mad people would love to add IDE and SCSI. Why?
Think El Torito. Think hurd boot cdrom. Think:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 galibert smartspa 744271 Aug 8 19:11 gnumach.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 galibert smartspa 325695 Aug 8 19:12 serverboot.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 galibert smartspa 589 Aug 8 19:11 servers.boot.gz
Doable without direct support in grub, but a pain. Not doable if I go
around implementing my "serverboot shouldn't have to worry about
filesystems, grub already knows them" idea.
We probably need the level of compile-time configurability of the
linux kernel.
Okuji, do you plan to track the file organization of etherboot, or
would you accept a seperation in directories between network devices
and protocols and an independant eveolution as a result. For
instance, I want NFS, but I also want mountpoint and filename
completion over NFS, so etherboot's code isn't enough.
OG.
