On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:51:00AM -0700, Bogdan wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm interested in helping out with development of GRUB 2. I am particularly > interested in seeing the Multiboot Specification being updated; the old one > is *very* outdated and the draft isn't actively being worked on. I'm part of > both OSDev.org and BonaFide (osdever.net) communities and we'd really like to > see an updated version. What can I do to help? > > I assume GRUB is of primary interest here and the Multiboot Specification is > mostly explaining what GRUB expects. In that case I assume there might be > some things that you already implemented in GRUB that would drive the spec in > a certain direction.
One of the major problems with bringing Multiboot2 to a usable state is that its implementation is in bitrot. The reason that brought us to this is that it shares very little code with the Multiboot1 loader. As a first step, I would recommend rewriting the Multiboot2 loader completely, basing it off the Multiboot1 with some preprocessor magic for divergences. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
