Re: Absence notice

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Pavel Roskin<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 23:02 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> Hello. Tomorrow I go on my travel to France (RMLL) and won't be active
>> till 14 July.
>
> Bon voyage! :-)
Thanks
>
>>  I'll stay in contact but will not be able to review
>> patches. I know that it doesn't change my status a lot right now -
>> last week was pretty busy too. When I come back I'll catch up with the
>> progress. If someone needs any of my patches in the trunk feel free to
>> commit.
>> Could someone review nested partition patch?
>
> It doesn't apply in loader/i386/pc/chainloader.c at all.
Ok, I'll rediff.
>
> I think some parts could be split and applied separately.
I'll look but afair it's not possible without breaking something
> I don't think
> there are any objections against supporting nested partitions.
Yes but I thought someone may have comments like "let's shave ths part
from the kernel". The patch doesn't increase the core.img because
increase of kernel size is compensated by pc.mod/bsdlabel.mod split.
It the cases when bsdlabel.mod is used usually no modules like raid or
lvm are used
> But I
> think it would be better to support letters for BSD partitions if it's
> not too hard.
It's done. THe patch treats 'a' and 1 completely alike
>
>>  It changes sufficiently a
>> lot to need a peer review and I need for clear network naming support
>> (I plan to use a syntax like (ftp,192.168.1.1,21,user,pass)/grub.cfg )
>
> I think the networking is better split from GRUB as a separate project
> under GPLv2.  It would be a huge effort to reimplement networking under
> GPLv3.
You wrong on this point because of http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/.
It's a complete TCP/IP stack with loads of features suited for preboot
environment and under 3-clause BSD license. I'll use it as a base. We
can import hw drivers from gPXE (most are GPLv3+-compatible) and
FreeBSD then
>  And I don't see it as a priority.  The priority should be
> supplanting GRUB1, yaboot and other bootloaders currently in use.
>
It's my priority. Solaris folks are willing to move to grub2 but are
uncomfortable to lose netboot. (nested partitions and zfs were for
them too) Additionaly I have a laptop without CD-ROM and want to push
distributors to have completely network-based installation. For this a
FTP or HTTP supportin grub would be very nice
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
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