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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| slightly out of date or otherwise not easy to understand at first |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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| * Port the script ``grub-install'' to FreeBSD, NetBSD and 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 configuration inclusion support by adding a command "include". |
| |
| * Make symbolic links work for BSD FFS. |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| * Add automatic configuration support. |
| |
| * Add bunzip2 support. |
| |
| * Define the module system. |
| |
| * Add ISA PnP support. |
| |
| * Fix the completion so that it works for BSD partitions as well. ! |
| |
| * 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 more filesystems support (XFS, NTFS, etc.) |
| |
| * Add remote console support (serial, parallel and net). !! |
| |
| * Add 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 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. |
| |
| ? Add command for modifying partition types. |
| |
| * 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. |