Hello list, My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code student for the GRUB2 project. I thought I'd introduce myself and my project. I am a second year student at the University of Waterloo (just finished 2A, first term of second year). I have experience developing in low-level environments in C and assembly.
Now about my project. I will be adding CD-ROM booting functionality to GRUB2. The first stage of the project will attempt to use BIOS calls to achieve this functionality (which is, of course, dependent on the BIOS's capabilities, standards compliance, etc.). The second stage will involve writing a complete ATA/ATAPI driver which would bypass the BIOS completely, thus allowing it to work on virtually any system out there. Unfortunately I only have access to ATAPI CD-ROM drives, so I won't be able to work on SCSI and/or USB, however I will try to separate the system to load the boot image from the driver itself as much as possible so that future driver developments for SCSI and USB will just be sort of drop-in replacements. So, just thought I'd talk a bit about what I'll be doing... Thank you for your attention and time. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions in the months to come. :) -- Alex Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
