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


From: Gilles van Ruymbeke
Subject: Any suggestion on How to merge the Grub patches into a new release ?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:51:38 -0700

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





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