Re: GRUB and Google Summer of Code

2010-04-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 30 March 2010 20:46, Alex Zanetti de Lima trust...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On Tue 30 Mar 2010 (14:26) Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko said Michal Suchanek wrote: 2010/3/29 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: -Some other hardware which may contain something

GRUB and network (was Re: GRUB and Google Summer of Code)

2010-04-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
First of all please change subject line when topic changes Michal Suchanek wrote: I would be interested in the x86 port and something like telnet and/or VNC terminal for Grub or at least reading configuration from the network. The problem is that for this grub has to be a server. For

GRUB and network (Re: GRUB and Google Summer of Code)

2010-04-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Alex Zanetti de Lima wrote: We discussed that with Vladimir, who pointed out the following drawbacks: 1) Current implementation was BOOTP/TFTP only. No support for other protocols. 2) Almost no shared code between architectures. 3) 100% dependent on OFW. And it messed up with memory

Re: GRUB and network (was Re: GRUB and Google Summer of Code)

2010-04-01 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 04/01/10 16:59, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: There is already some crypto imported for password support so adding enough to have SSL would hopefully not be too difficult. Not true. Although we have ciphers and hashes we don't have either asymetric algorithms or random

Re: GRUB and Google Summer of Code

2010-03-30 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/3/29 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: -Some other hardware which may contain something bootable. We will probably have a network subsystem contributed by IBM before Summer so Is there some more information about this network subsystem available? This sounds

Re: GRUB and Google Summer of Code

2010-03-30 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Michal Suchanek wrote: 2010/3/29 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: -Some other hardware which may contain something bootable. We will probably have a network subsystem contributed by IBM before Summer so Is there some more information about this network

Re: GRUB and Google Summer of Code

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Zanetti de Lima
On Tue 30 Mar 2010 (14:26) Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko said Michal Suchanek wrote: 2010/3/29 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: -Some other hardware which may contain something bootable. We will probably have a network subsystem contributed by IBM before

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