On Friday 06 October 2006 21:16, Todd Denniston wrote: > when I looked through the notes in the source and the grub2 (and grub) > website I did not see anything indicating that either of the current > unpatched releases of grub could work with a DiskOnChip flash device.
I do not think it works. > This was a little surprising considering there have been supposedly working > patches[1] since November 2003. Did I miss something? The patch is for GRUB Legacy but not for GRUB 2. > It looks like Okuji believed at one time[2] ilgiz had not gotten the > assignment forms done, but ilgiz later[3] indicated ilgiz had gotten the > forms in and had received FSF confirmation. Also dwmw2 indicated[4] his > assignment forms were in for his changes. Not only I believed it, but also it was the truth. He hadn't sent the paper for more than 2 years, and when he did, it was too late, since GRUB Legacy was feature-frozen then. > Are there other reasons that the patches never got included in grub? No. > Is there any reason other than the assignment forms, that the concepts (and > hopefully _some_ of the working code) from the patches can't be > incorporated into grub2? It's possible, but the code base is so different, and so somebody must make effort. If you do, I would be happy to incorporate it. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
