On Wed Jan 17, 2007 at 15:39:01 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandes Montezelo wrote:
2007/1/17, Christian Helmuth ch12@os.inf.tu-dresden.de:
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:41:29PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandes Montezelo wrote:
Still, aren't there any plans to try to get Fiasco-with-modules running in vanilla versions of GRUB, or the new GRUB2? It will be quite useful for people trying to test it, I think.
On the other hand, 'modaddr' may be a cool feature for vanilla GRUB, doesn't it?
I don't know yet why is it necessary, etc -- so I can't say much about the usefulness of the feature.
But my question also included the possibility that you mention, that is, if you have plans to contact GRUB devels to integrate that feature in the upstream version, or they already rejected it, or what. Whatever works so people don't need to use forks of the tools would be nice, I think :)
Getting something like a feature addition into GRUB1 is basically impossible. GRUB1 is in deep freeze mode, no chance. One needs to fork it, like I did. Things may look different for GRUB2 but I do not see much activity there lately and it's still missing important things like network support so that it's a no-go for me.
Adam