On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:10:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Robert Millan<r...@aybabtu.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I think it's time we begin the discussion on GRUB 1.97. What do we want to > > see in it, and a rough schedule. 1.97 is meant to be a point release, > > without > > any major changes (I mean, except for those we already have ;-)), and it > > should > > happen soon (like this month or so). > I think it would be good if we release before ubuntu's beta freeze.
Agreed. > > - Low memory heap (useful to move code off kern/i386/pc/startup.S). > Originally I thought of a path relocator32->relocator users->mm > relocator32 is ready for next round of review but is untested. Now I > think about it mm patch isn't actually dependent on relocator32, just > you won't get some features (as loading big initrds and removal of > os_area_size/os_area_addr fields) before relocator32 is used by all > loaders. I will adjust mm patch to this and add > .(text|data|bss)-lowmem section support. I don't understand, what is the relation between relocator in loaders and low memory heap? I'll need to catch up with the lowmem heap discussion. What's the approach? > What about savedefault? Which savedefault way you prefer? I think it would be good to have. But I haven't followed on the savedefault discussion, I just know it would build upon the existing envfile support. > > Bigger overhauls like the fancy menu > I started splitting Collin's patches and actually only quite few need > to go to the parts already present in grub2. Perhaps 1.97 can be > brought to a state when gfxmenu can be compiled externally? Depends on how intrusive are those changes :-) -- 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
