Re: [Patch] Fix VESA VBE BIOS support in GRUB Legacy

[Martin Decky]

Greetings,

> We aren't committing that patch against the source code. You are aware
> that Grub-Legacy is just that.

Is just what? On http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy.en.html I 
can read:

"GRUB Legacy is not actively developed any longer. Only bugfixes will be 
made so that GRUB Legacy can stil be used for older systems."

I can perfectly understand that, you don't want to introduce any new 
features to GRUB Legacy, because you want to focus all the development 
effort on the GRUB (2). However, this is not a new feature, this is a 
bugfix.

> It is legacy because support, if it can
> be called that, stopped when GRUB2 started to be developed.

Well, my opinion is that mistaking the phrase "no development" with the 
phrase "no maintenance" and "no support" is somehow misguided. As 
misguided as ignoring the bare fact about the ratio of real-life Linux 
distros and other OSes actively using GRUB Legacy vs. GRUB (2).

I don't follow any of the GRUB mailing lists, but I can imagine that you 
have had a similar discussion here a thousand times already. If you are 
sick of replying again and if you really don't want to reconsider your 
actual GRUB Legacy bugfix policy, you don't have to, I won't be angry.

I don't want to "change the world", I have just posted a bugfix. Take it 
or leave it, that's your choice.


Best regards

Martin Decky