I am interested in possibly contributing to the GRUB project in the
Google Summer of Code, and I was interested in further discussing the
Fancy Menus idea.
I have not used GRUB 2 yet (I am using Gentoo Linux primarily, with GRUB
0.9x), though I have downloaded and browsed the source code. I assume
that fancy menus will still use the keyboard exclusively as the input
device, for the time being. (Is there talk of mouse support?)
Does GRUB code run in real mode? I was thinking that double-buffering
the graphics might be important for fancy graphics effects, and wondered
whether is it difficult to allocate and deal with a megabyte or so block
of memory? When I last programmed real mode programs in DOS, I know the
limitations based on segment sizes, etc., but it's been a while.
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Colin
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