grub/TODO

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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slightly out of date or otherwise not easy to understand at first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.

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.

* Support partition syntax to correspond with BSD ``slice'' syntax
  (`(hd0,1a)' -> `/dev/hd0s2a'). !
? Add a partition naming syntax that means ``the first partition of
  this type''.  We need this for clean Hurd install floppies.
* 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.
* Make symbolic links work for BSD FFS. !
* Fix keyboard/gateA20 bug (????  at least look at the code). The
  keyboard status bits may be checked wrong.
* Add indirect block support to the BSD FFS filesystem code, so files
  larger than 16MB can be read. !
? Add command for modifying partition types.
* Fix-up FreeBSD, NetBSD (and OpenBSD ?) command-line boot
  parameters. !!
* Add a new installation command, such as `setup', which should be
  easier to use and more automatic than the command `install'. !!!
* Add keyboard layout configuration support. !
* Clean up and enhance the manuals, especially concept indexes. !!!
* Add more filesystems support (XFS, NTFS, etc.)
* Add remote console support (serial, parallel and net).
* Add RAID support.
* Complete the netboot support. !
* Add automatic configuration support.