[Fwd: Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?]

[Svante Signell]

This reply does not seem to have made it to bug-hurd. Maybe not so
usable to get support for USB in Hurd, but anyway.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
Reply-to: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:09:59 +0200

On 07/13/2010 08:33 AM, Svante Signell wrote:
> Sorry for chiming in here, maybe this is a shot in the dark. Grub has
> made some progress with USB interfaces by Ales Nesrsta, see e.g.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-07/msg00079.html
>
> Can this (GNU) work be reusable for Hurd?
>
>   
GRUB USB stack isn't meant for a complete OS. It works in polling mode
which has only minimal impact in bootloader but will stall the CPU in a
real kernel.
Licensing can be another problem: I don't know if Hurd has already made
it to GPLv3+. If the subsystem is useful technically we can look into it
but a priori it's not a good place to copy from
> Svante Signell
> GNU and Hurd supporter
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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