I will say that I personally actually still prefer elilo in some respects. Notably, grub2 tends to want to reinvent the world rather than interact with other protocols. Adding ipxe download protocol to elilo was easy, but I couldn't navigate grub2 to make the same changes. grub2 instead went to make their own http stack, but ipxe still is ahead of them.
The only thing I've been tempted to add that I don't have a patch for yet is loader side initrd concatenation. I could imagine a *simpler* bootloader making me no longer care about elilo for providing a simplistic netboot environment, but grub2 isn't in that direction. In short, I for one am grateful for elilo still being kept up all this time and for being simple and to the point. Thanks for that. From: jfly <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/15/2013 05:28 PM Subject: Re: [elilo-discuss] Please switch to GIT (or another DVCS) so that it is easy to contribute to ELILO Hi Keshav, thanks for your note. >Hi, > Can you guys please switch from CVS to GIT (or another DVCS) so >that it is easy for users to track development of ELILO. Currently it >is difficult to track using CVS. Thanks in advance. GIT is great (and intended) for really large projects with 100's of contributors. As elilo is neither of those, and that status wont change, I dont see the benefits warrant the time and effort. There is nothing that prevents you from pulling the source into your own local git repository and working on it within git and sending patches for consideration and elilo will stay on sourceforge. That being said, I hear you, I work with git for the kernel and Ive thought about switching this source over to git now and then. Git is superior to CVS so I'll consider it again. you are the first to raise a complaint. no really. >Off-note: Is ELILO still under active development? Because there seems >to be no update after v3.16 which was released in March 2013 (8 months >ago). Even if it is no longer actively maintained, providing the >sources via GIT will allow contributors to fork the code and maintain >it in github/gitorious/bitbucket etc.. Elilo is still actively maintained solely by me but no longer in active development. Elilo was designed in the early 2000's for EFI and Itanium, thats why it exists. As neither of those are very relevant any more It is legacy code at the end of its life cycle naturally. Im really not accepting new features or new feature requests. New releases are for major bug fixes for people that just cant live without elilo and thats about it and I have no bugs waiting to release. New bootloader efforts and contributions should rightfully go to Grub2. It is in active development, has many active contributors and is accepting new features and it supports UEFI and secure boot now and is finally fairly well positioned to fulfill its original intention of being the "GRand Unified Bootloader". It could be so if it supported network booting and really if elilo didnt exist anymore Im sure that somebody wouldve contributed the feature by now, most likely from a cloud team. >With Best Regards, >Keshav And to you as well, Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ elilo-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/elilo-discuss
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