Bug#106399: GRUB Legacy is feature frozen

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:33:34AM +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> Le mer 27 sep 2006 22:31:42 CEST, Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> a
> écrit :
> 
> > Frédéric, why don't you send a mail to grub-devel at gnu.org and ask about
> > networking status?  Perhaps if you help them get these network patches that are
> > liing around integrated in GRUB 2, it'll be in time for the etch release.
> Yes, it's that I should have done before... But when I last looked at
> Grub2, network boot wasn't either in the objectives... It has changed a
> bit, but It seems to be yet in preliminary discussions. And I don't
> have knowledge to help a lot ...

I just found this in the GRUB 2 wiki (grub.enbug.org):

  http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~guffens/grub2_netboot/index.html

It seems there's much more than preliminary patches.  I suggest you get in touch
with the person who did this.  Also, Marco Gerards was doing some stuff IIRC.

> > I really appreciate your interest in GRUB, but note that GRUB Legacy is a
> > deprecated branch and we'll probably get rid of it post-etch, so it won't be
> > of much help to add new features just now.
> I can understand your view point. I was only a bit sad to miss the
> integration so close. But if we want Etch to be out one day, we must
> freeze updates before.

Thanks for understanding.  I understand yours too, FWIW, and I appreciate your
interest in making GRUB better.  :)

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