Maybe you heard the recent news that the handcuffware in Sony PS3 has been recently broken:
http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/heres-your-silver-platter.html This is somewhat relevant to GRUB: It is now possible to port free operating systems to the PS3, but they will need a bootloader. And GRUB already has two key pieces: - PowerPC support on other platforms - Operation mode that starts GRUB as a userland process (grub-emu) With the PS3 exploit, it is possible to get full access to physical memory. My understanding of PowerPC architecture is very limited, but I believe this would allow grub-emu to: - Rise privilege level - Disable interrupts - Setup 1:1 MMU map Thereby obtaining full control of the hardware. I think it would be feasible to make a GSoC project for this, or at least the beginning of it. Let me know if you'd like to be a mentor this summer. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
