Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09

[phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>]

I personally see following features still missing from grub2 comparing 
to grub1:
-network
It's in the list
-lock
It's more a question of discussing design that actually coding
-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
-map hook
Vesa is working on low memory loading which is a prerequisite. If my 
boot patch gets incorporated with Vesa's code it should be fairly simple 
to do it
-setkey
I've seen that someone already started keymap support
Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:54 +0100, phcoder wrote:
>> Robert Millan wrote:
>>> Seems nice.  Would you be willing to write a summary for these?  Then we
>>> could add it to grub-soc.html.
>> Where is this file?
>> Here is elaborated list:
> 
> In my opinion, matching all features of GRUB 1 on i386-pc should be the
> highest priority.  It would allow distributions to switch to GRUB 2,
> bringing more users and more developers.  As it stands now, GRUB 2 is
> seen as something much more experimental and dangerous than GRUB 1.
> 
> We won't win many users by the mouse and bluetooth support if distros
> don't switch to the new GRUB.  And distros are reluctant to make any
> changes that would be seen as regressions.
> 
> If we cannot match some features, such as network support, we should
> offer alternative solutions and document them.
> 


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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko