On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 12:35 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> >> I think it's really important to fix grub's code (by stealing code
> >> from isolinux ?),
> >
> > Also, I've just found that for the linux kernel, they also used
>
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Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Moreover, IMHO, it makes no sense trying to rewrite such low level
> functions, since there are not hundreds ways of writing it !
There are at least 2 ways :
1) copy-paste code
2) read specs, implement them - following the dire
On Friday 01 July 2005 19:01, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Yes this code is critical, as you see flaws in this code makes grub
> unusable on new PCs (freeze without *any* error message). Since it's the
> most critical part of grub, why simply not use the most stable code
> available for A20 handling: th
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
In the case of the A20, I'm not sure how I want to implement it. It is not
that bad to use syslinux code, because we have our own alternative. However,
this code is very critical, and I prefer writing our own code. After all, my
opinion looks like the same as Marco. :p
On Jul 1, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
Marco Gerards wrote:
I think it is not possible for us to use syslinux/isolinux code I
think. For GRUB the copyrights need to be assigned to the FSF before
a patch can be applied.
!?!?!?
There's no such requirement in the GNU GPL ! (and sysl
Hello Ludovic,
On Friday 01 July 2005 14:43, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
> > I think it is not possible for us to use syslinux/isolinux code I
> > think. For GRUB the copyrights need to be assigned to the FSF before
> > a patch can be applied.
>
> !?!?!?
I am afraid that Marco m
Marco Gerards wrote:
Didn't syslinux/isolinux use linux code?
I don't think so, in setup.S you can read:
*
* New A20 code ported from SYSLINUX by H. Peter Anvin. AMD Elan bugfixes
* by Robert Schwebel, December 2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*/
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Ludovic DROLEZ
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Marco Gerards wrote:
I think it is not possible for us to use syslinux/isolinux code I
think. For GRUB the copyrights need to be assigned to the FSF before
a patch can be applied.
!?!?!?
There's no such requirement in the GNU GPL ! (and syslinux is GPLed)
If collaborative work is impossible
Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ludovic Drolez wrote:
>> I think it's really important to fix grub's code (by stealing code
>> from isolinux ?),
>
> Also, I've just found that for the linux kernel, they also used
> sys/isolinux's code.
Didn't syslinux/isolinux use linux code?
I thin
Ludovic Drolez wrote:
I think it's really important to fix grub's code (by stealing code from
isolinux ?),
Also, I've just found that for the linux kernel, they also used sys/isolinux's
code.
Cheers,
Ludovic DROLEZ
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