Re: Where's Grub?
- To: "David Waite" <mass@ufl.edu>
- Cc: <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Where's Grub?
- From: Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>
- Date: 02 May 1999 14:53:07 -0600
- Message-id: <86d80jb3d8.fsf@trick.fig.org>
- In-reply-to: "David Waite"'s message of "Sun, 2 May 1999 15:41:09 -0400"
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>>>>> David Waite writes:
>> That's useful if you have a spare box. Even more useful would be
>> to get the char driver for linux char devices in GNU Mach. Okuji
>> already did a lot of work there, but there is still work to
>> do... if capable people could help out there, that would be
>> great. (=> virtual consoles)
DW> I was under the impression the best way to do it would be to
DW> modify the console server in hurd, 'term' (?)
The best way, but not the only way.
Getting Linux char device support for Mach is generally a win-win
situation: we'll get a bunch more drivers for free (VTs, /dev/random,
and others), and can spend more time working on other parts of the
system.
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Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
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