RE: Any suggestion on How to merge the Grub patches into a new release ?

[Feng Shuo]

I can not contact any of the authors of Grub4dos, although we are in the
same country :-(.
About the ARP bug, I think I have got the problem, but I need more check ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles van Ruymbeke [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:52 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Any suggestion on How to merge the Grub patches into a new release
?

Hello,
As suggested by Okuji, here is my post in the forum:
First of all, I would like to thank all the contributors of Grub
for their great work and for making this new release available. Good Job !!!
But I was really hoping to see some patches as part of the Grub-0.95
release.
The code divergence of these patches from the original release
make them now incompatible with each other and the merge looks like very 
painful.
Each one of them bring a lot of new great features that
I really would like to have integrated within a single grub release.
Here is some of the patches I am talking about:

1) The Network patch by Hans-Peter Jansen and Feng Shuo:
"https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9408";
which adds an updated set of drivers to the Grub network boot capability.
Most of the new network adapters (like gigabit) are part of this patch.
Known bug: ARP or unsolicited UDP traffic stops the GRUB TFTP download:
"https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9245";
It should be fixed soon by Feng Shuo.

2) Grub4dos and Grub4all which allow to boot grub from DOS (grub.exe)
and from the NT/XP boot loader (boot.ini+grldrstart+grldr) respectively.
Grub4Dos is done by "Tinybit" from China and also integrates some very nice
floppy/disk image mapping and emulation boot features (instead of the 
memdisk kernel)
and you can get it from here: 
"<http://newdos.yginfo.net/grubdos.htm>http://newdos.yginfo.net/grubdos.htm";
Grub4all is done by "Gandalf" and adds the fsys_ntfs.c to Grub4dos for the 
NT support:
"https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9180";

What would be best way to get a new release including all these great 
features ?
Any suggestion ?
Thanks, Gilles