* Finishing off Multiboot Specification
@ 2009-08-02 16:51 Bogdan
2009-08-02 21:40 ` Robert Millan
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From: Bogdan @ 2009-08-02 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: grub-devel
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 I am particularly interested in seeing the Multiboot Specification being updated; the old one is *very* outdated and the draft isn't actively being worked on.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.
Cheers,
Bogdan
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* Re: Finishing off Multiboot Specification
2009-08-02 16:51 Finishing off Multiboot Specification Bogdan
@ 2009-08-02 21:40 ` Robert Millan
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From: Robert Millan @ 2009-08-02 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The development of GRUB 2
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 I am particularly interested in seeing the Multiboot Specification being updated; the old one is *very* outdated and the draft isn't actively being worked on.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.
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