Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-28 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you paste their names and addresses? Why? Sounds a lot like the coreutils merge. Do you want me to ask the copyright clerk for you? No, thank you. It's my job. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:32:50PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote: --- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you paste their names and addresses? Why? Sounds a lot like the coreutils merge. Do you want me to ask the copyright clerk for you? No, thank you. It's my job. Never

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] If you are thinking of porting a boot loader seriously, please contribute to PUPA. You will have to work on common parts as well as architecture-specific parts, definitely. Robert just told me (on IRC) that PUPA doesn't have multiboot support.

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert just told me (on IRC) that PUPA doesn't have multiboot support. PUPA also lacks some other stuff, ext2fs support for example. That's right. It is far from real use. If someone wants to work on PUPA, can he just copy copy from GRUB? I assume

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] This year I work for a company, so I work on PUPA only in my spare time. PUPA is purely a volunteer-based project now. And perhaps if you call it GRUB2 and put it in /cvsroot/grub/grub2, then more people interested on adding features to

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Although this is applicable to GRUB as well, the main problem of PUPA is that quite few people are interested in the core development. So I'm afraid that nobody will join the project, until PUPA has

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are these copyright issues? They are really boring jobs only for the maintainer, but if you want to know, I tell you. One thing is that PUPA contains copyrighted materials by some people. So I need to ask them to assign their copyrights to the

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:19:38PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote: One thing is that PUPA contains copyrighted materials by some people. So I need to ask them to assign their copyrights to the FSF. Could you paste their names and addresses? Another is a bit complicated. I have already

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-25 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a look at PUPA (only the mailinglists and the sourcecode) a while ago and noticed that there is not much development lately. Yes, because I'm the only developer and I'm quite busy these days. Although this is applicable to GRUB as well, the

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-25 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the Information-technology Promotion Agency did sponsor you or someone for PUPA development. You are right. PUPA was sponsored by IPA last year. Only last year. This year I work for a company, so I work on PUPA only in my spare time.

GRUB portability

2003-09-24 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Because of the release of L4 (L4Ka::Pistachio) and the recent l4-Hurd developments it becomes really interesting to have a multiboot complaint bootloader on many architectures. Of course I want to use GRUB on all these architectures (I'm mainly interested in the PPC and Alpha architectures).