On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> wrote: > > Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring your > > customized GRUB to a different direction :-) > > > > Anyhow, my priority for GRUB is strong driver-based support. We could > > recruit > > someone to develop the framework in next year's GSoC (unless somebody steps > > in, of course). > > Why stop there? > > If proprietory ethernet ROMs aren't good enough, then what about > proprietory SCSI ROMs, and proprietory firmware/BIOS?
We are already doing it. There is functional ATA support, USB support is under development. GRUB can serve as BIOS together with Coreboot. > Surely a boot manager wouldn't be a good manager if it didn't include > it's own replacements for all of these things; and perhaps it should > also include it's own replacement for proprietory OS's too... > > Why are you worrying about such silly things when the multi-boot > specification (which actually is relevant) is still severely borked? Patches are welcome. > > The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and > > how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we > > still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." > > Sigh. I think I understand now - lack of logical thinking leads to > lack of rational behavior. Ad hominem arguments are not welcome here. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
