Re: porting info

[Dominik Táborský]

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>
> Předmět: Re: porting info
> Datum: 01.11.2011 20:44:06
> ----------------------------------------
> On 28.10.2011 14:47, Dominik Táborský wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am considering porting Grub2 to HelenOS system, which does not prefer any
> standard API and instead has its own.
> >
> > On the IRC channel a guy told me I need to port just grub-probe and 
> > grub-setup
> (please correct me if wrong). I am looking for some information, overview or
> something that would help me understand how things work inside GRUB2.
> >
> > Primarily I'd like to know what should be ported (files and stuff) and a bit
> of guidance (like "don't try to fix that [...]").
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> BTW I've just checked. GRUB2 is able to load HelenOS just fine (I used
> legacy_configfile). So porting is limited to compiling it under HelenOS.
> bdsh is obviously not enough to hold our build system or scripts. For
> the required dependencies see INSTALL.

Yes, I know :-) But thanks for caring :-)
PCC and binutils have already been ported, so I was advised to check them out, 
how has it been done. But I haven't had time, yet...

> In case of more questions you can
> ask here.

Thanks a lot for this one...


Dominik