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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove HFS support
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:46:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7412a75d-5541-4f2a-0220-95cbf61c2974@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEaD8JPPnc03sWB_Ro8QvEMmo9zmCjrsTDguCg2-mk20fu9idA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Vladimir!

On 8/19/22 21:01, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> But booting old machines is still desirable for GRUB. Is there a reason why
> HFS is actively bad for modern machines? Especially if it's disabled in case
> of lockdown.
>
> Can I have more details about your security concerns? I may consider rewriting
> parts of HFS code to improve it.

FWIW, in case you would be really interested on improving the HFS code, it should
be no problem to collect some funds in the PowerPC community to financially support
that task, e.g. through a Bountysource campaign.

We have done this in the past to support similar projects in GCC and LLVM.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Adrian

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-26 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-19 13:38 [PATCH] Remove HFS support Daniel Axtens
2022-08-19 13:57 ` Daniel Kiper
2022-08-19 14:03   ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-08-19 17:57     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2022-08-20 14:23       ` Daniel Axtens
2022-08-19 18:09     ` Steve McIntyre
2022-08-19 18:38       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-08-19 19:04         ` Dimitri John Ledkov
2022-08-19 19:45           ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2022-08-20 14:05             ` Daniel Axtens
2022-08-24  7:17             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-08-24  7:16           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-08-20 14:13         ` Daniel Axtens
2022-08-19 19:01       ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2022-08-26 15:46         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2022-08-26 17:02           ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2022-08-20 13:53     ` Daniel Axtens
2022-08-24  7:21       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-08-26 13:31         ` Daniel Axtens
2022-08-26 15:17           ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2022-08-30 18:28             ` Robbie Harwood
2022-09-01 14:01             ` Daniel Axtens
2022-08-26 15:27           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-08-30 16:37           ` Robbie Harwood
2022-08-30 17:21             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2022-08-30 18:43               ` Robbie Harwood

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