Re: Amiga FFS

[Marco Gerards]

> i didnt get any response of you about your opinion on the project
> www.aros.org anyway as i said before they are using a hacked grub1 to
> support amiga-ffs and rdb-partition.

Well, I told you that I was willing to implement affs and rdb
partition support for GRUB 2.  It will not happens immediately, but I
will do so eventually.

> linux kernel had for sometime a-ffs support, and do have rdb support, so i
> think we have enough resources

I'm not worried about that.

> AROS is supposed to be multiplataform (x86, ppc and m68k), but now it only
> works native on x86, there is also sfs and a-ffs2 (amigaos4 and morphos on
> ppc arch), but i had no info about those. (if you want i could try to get
> some)

Documentation will make my life easier and an implementation more
likely.  I don't even know what sfs and affs2 are, so I need to do
some reading about that.

> if you like the idea is also possible to make changes on the aros boot
> design to meet better some grub2 specification. (any ideia!?!?)

Currently there is only multiboot support, it is in Legacy GRUB and
you can use that already.  It is only usable on the PC.  I will work
on making it portable.

> i think the AROS team also could help about the hardware specification of
> the  M68K port of grub2, even without a M68K port of AROS itself. (little
> darkness humor   dont have a 68k port of it) =o)

Ok, that would be useful.  Please understand I will not work on this
right away, so I will get back to you on this.

> On other hand, i would like to know if grub2 is stable enough to be the
> default boo-loader of AROS. (or if not be the deault, to be usefull for beta
> testing)

Not at the moment.  At the moment you can better use Legacy GRUB until
GRUB 2 has more features.  At the moment it can't even do whatever
Legacy GRUB can do.

> If you need anything about a-ffs, rdb partitions, M68K specs, aros or
> relateds, please let me know that i will try to help!

I will let you know.  Thanks for the offer.

> PS1: you answer me in private messenger, should i use the list or your
> email?

Last time I sent a wide reply.  Perhaps something went wrong?

> PS2: is grub2 allready supporting splash-boot-images?

No, not yet.  But that will go into GRUB 2.

Thanks,
Marco