Re: Update on video subsystem draft

[Marco Gerards]

Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> writes:

>> For a GNU project VMWare is absolutely not an option.  You are of
>> course free to do whatever you like, but it is not something that can
>> be documented.
>
> Well I don't even run a Linux natively on this system :). I use VMware a
> lot for different things on this system, so for me it is natural to also
> develop grub2 on this configuration.
>
> But there are open source systems like bochs and others that might
> support also virtual serial ports/nic's or so that can also be used on
> VMware. Serial debugging could be a nice feature.

Perhaps bochs or qemu would work.

> May I ask why that cannot be documented? Of course I can provide this
> information on my own website if required.

Because for a GNU project references in official documentation to
non-free software is not allowed.  Of course you are free to put on
your website whatever you want to put there :-).  But I seriously doubt
that vmware has the debugging features bochs has.

--
Marco