On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 23:02 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Hello. Tomorrow I go on my travel to France (RMLL) and won't be active >> till 14 July. > > Bon voyage! :-) Thanks > >> I'll stay in contact but will not be able to review >> patches. I know that it doesn't change my status a lot right now - >> last week was pretty busy too. When I come back I'll catch up with the >> progress. If someone needs any of my patches in the trunk feel free to >> commit. >> Could someone review nested partition patch? > > It doesn't apply in loader/i386/pc/chainloader.c at all. Ok, I'll rediff. > > I think some parts could be split and applied separately. I'll look but afair it's not possible without breaking something > I don't think > there are any objections against supporting nested partitions. Yes but I thought someone may have comments like "let's shave ths part from the kernel". The patch doesn't increase the core.img because increase of kernel size is compensated by pc.mod/bsdlabel.mod split. It the cases when bsdlabel.mod is used usually no modules like raid or lvm are used > But I > think it would be better to support letters for BSD partitions if it's > not too hard. It's done. THe patch treats 'a' and 1 completely alike > >> It changes sufficiently a >> lot to need a peer review and I need for clear network naming support >> (I plan to use a syntax like (ftp,192.168.1.1,21,user,pass)/grub.cfg ) > > I think the networking is better split from GRUB as a separate project > under GPLv2. It would be a huge effort to reimplement networking under > GPLv3. You wrong on this point because of http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/. It's a complete TCP/IP stack with loads of features suited for preboot environment and under 3-clause BSD license. I'll use it as a base. We can import hw drivers from gPXE (most are GPLv3+-compatible) and FreeBSD then > And I don't see it as a priority. The priority should be > supplanting GRUB1, yaboot and other bootloaders currently in use. > It's my priority. Solaris folks are willing to move to grub2 but are uncomfortable to lose netboot. (nested partitions and zfs were for them too) Additionaly I have a laptop without CD-ROM and want to push distributors to have completely network-based installation. For this a FTP or HTTP supportin grub would be very nice > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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