On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:36 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote: >> > I think we should release 1.97 first. Sorry, I know that it's bad to >> > sit on a pile of code, but in my opinion, the nested partition patch is >> > too intrusive at this point. >> > >> For the release we prepared a lot of improvements for FreeBSD support. >> Hopefully it will attract new FreeBSD users. Supporting nested >> partitions required to abandon the syntax like (hd0,a) even if the >> syntax (hd0,1,a) could be preserved. If we release 1.97 now without >> nested partition patch it would be much more difficult in the future >> to break the compatibility with (hd0,a) format. So I would prefer to >> get nested partition patch in first before releasing 1.97 > > I don't think making another release would change the situation in any > way. Version 1.96 supported the (hd0,a) format, and that wasn't a > problem. > Version 1.96 isn't very usable for freebsd. You basically need chainload FreeBSD's bootloader to get anything more than module-less 32-bit boot. Now situation has changed > If you want, we could just disable the (hd0,a) format now without > actually changing the internals. I'm ok with it in condition that pre-release freeze period won't last long. Now Marco Gerards is just back from vacation and I propose to wait for his statements rather than speaking about virtual release > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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