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Re: GRUB portability
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: GRUB portability |
Date: |
25 Sep 2003 19:47:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Yoshinori Okuji <address@hidden> writes:
> --- Marco Gerards <address@hidden> 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 a full set of basic features.
> That's a common tendency in volunteer-based projects.
Sounds familiar to me, the Hurd has the same problem.
> 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.
I can not promise anything yet, but if I have time I will work on
PUPA. I understand that working on common part is a part of the job.
> Also, please do not waste your time to attempt to port GRUB to another
> architecture. GRUB is unportable and has many deficiencies in the
> implementation.
Ok.
Thanks,
Marco
- GRUB portability, Marco Gerards, 2003/09/24
- Re: GRUB portability, Yoshinori Okuji, 2003/09/25
- Re: GRUB portability, Robert Millan, 2003/09/25
- Re: GRUB portability, Yoshinori Okuji, 2003/09/25
- Re: GRUB portability, Marco Gerards, 2003/09/26
- Re: GRUB portability, Yoshinori Okuji, 2003/09/26
- Re: GRUB portability, Robert Millan, 2003/09/26
- Re: GRUB portability, Yoshinori Okuji, 2003/09/28
- Re: GRUB portability, Robert Millan, 2003/09/28
Re: GRUB portability,
Marco Gerards <=
Re: GRUB portability, Marco Gerards, 2003/09/26