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-*- Mode: Outline -*-
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Before working on anything in this file, it's very important that you
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make contact with the core GRUB developers. Things herein might be
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slightly out of date or otherwise not easy to understand at first
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glance. So write to <bug-grub@gnu.org> first.
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Priorities:
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Reported bugs generally have top priority.
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Non-reported and non-encountered bugs (things we know don't work,
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but don't really impede things) have lower priority.
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Things in this file are ranked with one to three !; the more, the
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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
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minimum GRUB image. This is useful for boot floppies because of the size
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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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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. !
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(0x1f0-0x1f7 = primary IDE, 0x170-0x176 = secondary,
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0x1e8-0x1ef = tertiary, 0x168-0x16f = quaternary).
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* Add a real scripting language, possibly retaining backward
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compatibility so that old config files can be used.
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* Add internationalization support, emulating gettext as much as is
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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
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modify the function `convert' so that it can translate a native device
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name into the corresponding GRUB drive representation. !
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* Add a command to run a GRUB script file. !!
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* 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
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larger than 16MB can be read.
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* Fix-up FreeBSD, NetBSD (and OpenBSD ?) command-line boot
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parameters.
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* Support embedding a Stage 1.5 in the "bootloader" area of a FFS
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partition. (We already have the code, but need an approval by an
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expert before turning on the support. Any volunteers?)
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* Support embedding a Stage 1.5 in the EXT2_BOOT_LOADER_INO of an ext2fs
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partition, so that it won't be accidentally erased or modified by
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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.
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? Add a partition naming syntax that means ``the first partition of
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this type''. We need this for clean Hurd install floppies.
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Nope. Improving the `find' command would solve this problem.
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* Add CDROM-chainloading support. It would be enough to support only
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BIOSes which have bootable-CDROM support (so you may use the "Bootable
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CDROM" BIOS calls). It is not trivial to support BIOSes without the
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capability to boot CDROM.
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? Divide pxegrub into two parts, so the initial image doesn't exceed
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the 32KB limit. I'm not sure if this is really necessary, because the
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PXE standard just says that it is _recommended_ to improve the
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modularity of a boot image. Obviously, this reason doesn't apply to
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GRUB, as pxegrub is merely a secondary boot loader. So whether this
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task should be done depends on if existing PXE ROMs support >32KB
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images or not, after all.
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