Re: Possible ports

2010-03-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Tue 30 Mar 2010 00:39:31 +0200, a écrit : > 6) Paravirtualized environments are often used for security reasons. In > this context it's preferable to have a bootloader inside virtual machine > rather than outside. Some paravirtualized environments are carb

Possible ports

2010-03-29 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello, I would like to outline the usefulness of possible ports. It's not exhaustive it's more like list of remarks. 1) the smallest embedded systems and microcontrollers. These ones simply don't have any space to store multiple kernels or any interactivity whatsoever. On such platforms the only gr

GRUB and Google Summer of Code

2010-03-29 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello, all. As every year GNU participates as umbrella organisation at Google Summer of Code. So if you willing to be a student or a mentor feel free to discuss the ideas here. Just few ideas to start with: -USB. It needs a lot of fixing and EHCI port. -AHCI. Really needed -Some other hardware whic