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Re: About firmware facilities
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Re: About firmware facilities |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:11:37 -0400 |
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring your
> > customized GRUB to a different direction :-)
> >
> > Anyhow, my priority for GRUB is strong driver-based support. We could
> > recruit
> > someone to develop the framework in next year's GSoC (unless somebody steps
> > in, of course).
>
> Why stop there?
>
> If proprietory ethernet ROMs aren't good enough, then what about
> proprietory SCSI ROMs, and proprietory firmware/BIOS?
We are already doing it. There is functional ATA support, USB support
is under development. GRUB can serve as BIOS together with Coreboot.
> Surely a boot manager wouldn't be a good manager if it didn't include
> it's own replacements for all of these things; and perhaps it should
> also include it's own replacement for proprietory OS's too...
>
> Why are you worrying about such silly things when the multi-boot
> specification (which actually is relevant) is still severely borked?
Patches are welcome.
> > The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
> > how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
> > still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
>
> Sigh. I think I understand now - lack of logical thinking leads to
> lack of rational behavior.
Ad hominem arguments are not welcome here.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- Re: PXEgrub development on grub2, (continued)
- Re: PXEgrub development on grub2, Felix Zielcke, 2009/09/10
- Re: PXEgrub development on grub2, Seth Goldberg, 2009/09/10
- Re: PXEgrub development on grub2, Robert Millan, 2009/09/11
- Re: PXEgrub development on grub2, Seth Goldberg, 2009/09/11
- Re: PXEgrub development on grub2, Michal Suchanek, 2009/09/11
- Re: PXEgrub development on grub2, Seth Goldberg, 2009/09/11
- About firmware facilities, Robert Millan, 2009/09/12
- Re: About firmware facilities, Seth Goldberg, 2009/09/13
- Re: About firmware facilities, Robert Millan, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Brendan Trotter, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities,
Pavel Roskin <=
- Re: About firmware facilities, Brendan Trotter, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Michal Suchanek, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Brendan Trotter, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Colin Watson, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Brendan Trotter, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Colin Watson, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Brendan Trotter, 2009/09/14
- Re: About firmware facilities, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/09/15
- Re: About firmware facilities, Brendan Trotter, 2009/09/15