At Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:44:16 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:49, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > I am a potential student applicant for the "Google-summer -of -code" > > > program. And I am strongly interested in the GNU Grub project, especially > > > for the porting grubs to the EFI-based PC platform idea. But there are > > > few messages or information about EFI porting for grub2. So I have some > > > questions about this idea. > > > > I don't have any experience with EFI, but as far as I know GRUB2 > > already boots on intel macs and other EFI-based x86 machines. Although > > it probably still needs a lot of work, that isn't going to be enough > > for a Summer of Code project. > > Why not enough? EFI has a significant amount of share in the market, and I > see > nothing bad with working on EFI stuff. > > I have already written the status in the wiki: > > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnEFI > > In addition, we need Multiboot support on EFI as well.
The question is whether it's possible to formulate a project big enough for Summer of Code and that also has clear goals, given that the basic implementation of the port is already done? But I don't know anything about EFI, so if you say that's possible than it's okay with me. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
