Re: grub and DiskOnChip devices.

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Friday 06 October 2006 21:16, Todd Denniston wrote:
> when I looked through the notes in the source and the grub2 (and grub)
> website I did not see anything indicating that either of the current
> unpatched releases of grub could work with a DiskOnChip flash device.

I do not think it works.

> This was a little surprising considering there have been supposedly working
> patches[1] since November 2003. Did I miss something?

The patch is for GRUB Legacy but not for GRUB 2.

> It looks like Okuji believed at one time[2] ilgiz had not gotten the
> assignment forms done, but ilgiz later[3] indicated ilgiz had gotten the
> forms in and had received FSF confirmation. Also dwmw2 indicated[4] his
> assignment forms were in for his changes.

Not only I believed it, but also it was the truth. He hadn't sent the paper 
for more than 2 years, and when he did, it was too late, since GRUB Legacy 
was feature-frozen then.

> Are there other reasons that the patches never got included in grub?

No.

> Is there any reason other than the assignment forms, that the concepts (and
> hopefully _some_ of the working code) from the patches can't be
> incorporated into grub2?

It's possible, but the code base is so different, and so somebody must make 
effort. If you do, I would be happy to incorporate it.

Okuji