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[Marco Gerards]

Jotinha <address@hidden> writes:

> does grub2 will support Amiga FFS and Amiga Partitions (RDB)?

Not yet.  A week ago I sent an email to this list about filesystems
that will be supported.  I forgot adding FFS to this list.

But I am certainly willing to add it, mainly because I planned porting
GRUB 2 to the amiga after the PC version and apple version (ieee1275)
work.

So if Okuji is not fully against an amiga port (m68k), you can expect
one.  That is including everything you can logically expect from it.

Three things might be useful to me:

- Documentation about Amiga FFS (I read a book about it, but that was
  ~7 years ago and I don't have access to it anymore).  I still have
  to look for information using google, I think it is easy to find.

- If the videocard is directly programmed we need to add support for
  videocards (and not just OCS, ECS and AGA).  It might be better to
  use the available libraries at first.  IIRC there is a library with
  useful functions for that loaded by kickstart.  Ideas are welcome.

- Testers when it is done.

I think an amiga port would be quite easy.  Especially because I have
experience with both the amiga and porting GRUB 2.

It just will take some time before GRUB 2 is quite usable, even on the
PC.  Another thing I am bothered with is that multiboot is PC only.

The last problem is that we need a somewhat more general partition
scheme.  So all partition schemes can be mixed.  I think linux already
has that.  We already have support for PC style partitions, BSD slices
and apple style partitions.

Hopefully you asked your question with the amiga in mind.  If that was
not true, please tell me what you need Amiga FFS and RDB for.

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Marco