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| Before working on anything in this file, it's very important that you |
| make contact with the core GRUB developers. Things herein might be |
| slightly out of date or otherwise not easy to understand at first |
| glance. So write to <bug-grub@gnu.org> first. |
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| Priorities: |
| Reported bugs generally have top priority. |
| Non-reported and non-encountered bugs (things we know don't work, |
| but don't really impede things) have lower priority. |
| Things in this file are ranked with one to three !; the more, the |
| higher priority. |
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| Things that must or should be done before 1.0: |
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| * Finish the Multiboot Speicification 0.7. !!! |
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| * Add more --disable-FOO options to configure, so that you can create a |
| minimum GRUB image. This is useful for boot floppies because of the size |
| restriction. ! |
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| * Implement a new version of track_int13, using Virtual 8086 Mode. !!! |
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| * Add missing features of graphics support. !! |
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| * Fix a bug about drive completion. It happens only if a network drive |
| is available. !! |
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| Things that must _not_ be done before 1.0: |
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| * Add configuration inclusion support by adding a command "include". ! |
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| * Add automatic configuration support. |
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| * Add bunzip2 support. |
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| * Define the module system. |
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| * Add BSD syntax support, using results of ioprobe to map drives. ! |
| (0x1f0-0x1f7 = primary IDE, 0x170-0x176 = secondary, |
| 0x1e8-0x1ef = tertiary, 0x168-0x16f = quaternary). |
| |
| * Add a real scripting language, possibly retaining backward |
| compatibility so that old config files can be used. |
| |
| * Add internationalization support, emulating gettext as much as is |
| feasible. |
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| * Support other architectures than i386-pc. |
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| * Add real memory management. |
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| Things that may be done anytime: |
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| * Port the script ``grub-install'' to OpenBSD. At least you will have to |
| modify the function `convert' so that it can translate a native device |
| name into the corresponding GRUB drive representation. ! |
| |
| * Add a command to run a GRUB script file. !! |
| |
| * Add commands to manipulate the menu from the command-line interface. ! |
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| * Make symbolic links work for BSD FFS. |
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| * Add indirect block support to the BSD FFS filesystem code, so files |
| larger than 16MB can be read. |
| |
| * Fix-up FreeBSD, NetBSD (and OpenBSD ?) command-line boot |
| parameters. |
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| * Support embedding a Stage 1.5 in the "bootloader" area of a FFS |
| partition. (We already have the code, but need an approval by an |
| expert before turning on the support. Any volunteers?) |
| |
| * Support embedding a Stage 1.5 in the EXT2_BOOT_LOADER_INO of an ext2fs |
| partition, so that it won't be accidentally erased or modified by |
| the kernel. |
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| * Add ISA PnP support. |
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| * Add more filesystems support (NTFS, etc.) |
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| * Add more remote console support (parallel and net). |
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| * Add (real) RAID support. |
| |
| ? Add a partition naming syntax that means ``the first partition of |
| this type''. We need this for clean Hurd install floppies. |
| Nope. Improving the `find' command would solve this problem. |
| |
| * Add CDROM-chainloading support. It would be enough to support only |
| BIOSes which have bootable-CDROM support (so you may use the "Bootable |
| CDROM" BIOS calls). It is not trivial to support BIOSes without the |
| capability to boot CDROM. |
| |
| ? Divide pxegrub into two parts, so the initial image doesn't exceed |
| the 32KB limit. I'm not sure if this is really necessary, because the |
| PXE standard just says that it is _recommended_ to improve the |
| modularity of a boot image. Obviously, this reason doesn't apply to |
| GRUB, as pxegrub is merely a secondary boot loader. So whether this |
| task should be done depends on if existing PXE ROMs support >32KB |
| images or not, after all. |