Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-24 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:54:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you planning on completing your VM86 implementation in the reasonably near future? If not, I could complete/robustify mine. No. Please finish up your own implementation! I'd look at yours. :) I think we talked a little bit

source tree organization (Was: Re: GRUB plans...)

2001-10-24 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
[I send this message to the list, since I'd like everyone to know what the official maintainer thinks.] I see Thierry's point about the organization of the source tree and the documentation system. For now, I'm thinking these about the organization: * Making a small libc-like library. Currently

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-21 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:39:57AM +0200, Christoph Plattner wrote: Very important for GRUB in concern of multiplatform and especially cross build of boot images is the BIG/LITTLE ENDIAN problem. I think, there are some code in the GRUB especially accessing and installing GRUB wich are not

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-20 Thread erich
Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I suggest to reorganise, before modifying the code, the tree and names of sources? When I worked on adding the CD and extended floppy formats I was a bit puzzled by the names (stage1 loads start.S which passes control to asm.S which calls

Re: [Bug-grub] Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-20 Thread Jason Thomas
if you take it off list please include me! Thanks. On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:45:35AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to keep discussing this, we should probably have it offline for now. I realize it can be a religious issue and can't claim I don't have some blinders on about

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-18 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:54:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially, what I'm after is: -- Multiplatform: Bootloaders on other arch's sometimes suck more than x86. ;-) Or they're just inflexible. This would entail some modularization and testing, but I think

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-17 Thread erich
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Erich, I add the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] to Cc, so that other people can see my opinion as well. I hope that you won't mind.] Not a problem... First of all, I'm sorry that I'm too late to reply. I was quite busy! Heh, sorry for my late

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-13 Thread Christoph Plattner
Further issues: Network stuff in GRUB: I am a little bit sad about the fact, that the Release 1.0 will have so many problems in the ethernet drivers. I know there are plans to use other OS NIC drivers (although in my oppinion the polling drivers are perfect suitable for this job), but we

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-13 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Saturday, 13. October 2001 06:51, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Finally, in my own OS experiments, I'm starting to look at multi-arch support, and have been starting to consider how to make GRUB work with, say, the Mac PPC and other environments. The Mac

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-13 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
From: Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GRUB plans... Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:55:06 +0200 Hey, what is wrong with openboot/openfirmware? I always liked the booting capabilities of the SPARC firmware and was estonished to find almost the same firmware in my Macintosh. If you

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-13 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
From: Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GRUB plans... Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:56:46 +0200 For the release we should really think of a method to able to copy in always the current status of the NIC drivers of the etherboot project. For this we can create for example

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-12 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
[Erich, I add the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] to Cc, so that other people can see my opinion as well. I hope that you won't mind.] First of all, I'm sorry that I'm too late to reply. I was quite busy! You probably saw a few messages a few months back I sent when I was starting to look into