From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LeyEq-0005y8-U3 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:02:48 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeyEo-0005y1-Oa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:02:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeyEn-0005x6-1L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:02:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47396 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeyEm-0005x3-QV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:02:44 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:43531) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LeyEm-0005Fo-92 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:02:44 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ley7A-00029y-OO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:54:53 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LeyEj-00089D-Hn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:02:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:02:41 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090304210241.GD31201@thorin> References: <49A50DA2.20604@netsyncro.com> <49A532A3.1090007@gmail.com> <20090227210809.GK31629@thorin> <49A9260E.1020909@gmail.com> <1235881685.24700.7.camel@mj> <49AAC2BF.7050307@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49AAC2BF.7050307@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:02:47 -0000 On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:15:43PM +0100, phcoder wrote: > I personally see following features still missing from grub2 comparing > to grub1: > -network Notice that in the GRUB Legacy shipped by Debian, network is disabled anyway (without module support, you can't ship a prebuilt image that supports all drivers). > -simple partition manipulation > I started a design discussion about this subject but nobody seems to be > interested. If I receive no further replies I suppose that my > proposition with "parttool" in "Re: [PATCH] make partition active" is ok > and implement it This is nice, but not an essential feature when it comes to Debian. > -map hook Same here. > -setkey > I've seen that someone already started keymap support Yep, and gettext too. Both are really nice, but I don't think they're essential for Debian users either. -- 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."