Re: The BSDs

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:02:22PM +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what exactly do you guys need from the BSDs for full
> functionality? Please be specific to the three BSD projects
> as well.

In more to less order of relevance:

 - UFS2. It's needed for FreeBSD 5.x but UFS2 is being adopted in
   NetBSD and probably OpenBSD, so it affects all them. [1]
 - Fix to access FreeBSD's interfaces from grub-shell (userspace grub that
   accesses /dev/ devices). [2]
 - boot FreeBSD's kernel directly (instead of using /boot/loader)

[1] see http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-07/msg00111.html
    and http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-09/msg00136.html
[2] see http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-06/msg00012.html

For all of these, it's nice to have them fixed for GRUB, but maybe it makes
more sense to actualy fix GRUB2 (aka PUPA).

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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