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1N/ABefore working on anything in this file, it's very important that you
1N/Amake contact with the core GRUB developers. Things herein might be
1N/Aslightly out of date or otherwise not easy to understand at first
1N/Aglance. So write to <bug-grub@gnu.org> first.
1N/A Reported bugs generally have top priority.
1N/A Non-reported and non-encountered bugs (things we know don't work,
1N/A but don't really impede things) have lower priority.
1N/A Things in this file are ranked with one to three !; the more, the
1N/AThings that should be done before 1.0:
1N/A* Finish the Multiboot Speicification 0.7. !!!
1N/A* Add more --disable-FOO options to configure, so that you can create a
1N/A minimum GRUB image. This is useful for boot floppies because of the size
1N/A* Implement a new version of track_int13, using Virtual 8086 Mode. !!!
1N/A* Add missing features of graphics support. !!
1N/AThings that should _not_ be done before 1.0:
1N/A* Add configuration inclusion support by adding a command "include". !
1N/A* Add automatic configuration support.
1N/A* Add bunzip2 support.
1N/A* Define the module system.
1N/A* Add BSD syntax support, using results of ioprobe to map drives. !
1N/A (0x1f0-0x1f7 = primary IDE, 0x170-0x176 = secondary,
1N/A 0x1e8-0x1ef = tertiary, 0x168-0x16f = quaternary).
1N/A* Add a real scripting language, possibly retaining backward
1N/A compatibility so that old config files can be used.
1N/A* Add internationalization support, emulating gettext as much as is
1N/A* Support other architectures than i386-pc.
1N/A* Add real memory management.
1N/AThings that may be done anytime:
1N/A* Port the script ``grub-install'' to OpenBSD. At least you will have to
1N/A modify the function `convert' so that it can translate a native device
1N/A name into the corresponding GRUB drive representation. !
1N/A* Add a command to run a GRUB script file. !!
1N/A* Add commands to manipulate the menu from the command-line interface. !
1N/A* Make symbolic links work for BSD FFS.
1N/A* Add indirect block support to the BSD FFS filesystem code, so files
1N/A larger than 16MB can be read.
1N/A* Fix-up FreeBSD, NetBSD (and OpenBSD ?) command-line boot
1N/A* Support embedding a Stage 1.5 in the "bootloader" area of a FFS
1N/A partition. (We already have the code, but need an approval by an
1N/A expert before turning on the support. Any volunteers?)
1N/A* Support embedding a Stage 1.5 in the EXT2_BOOT_LOADER_INO of an ext2fs
1N/A partition, so that it won't be accidentally erased or modified by
1N/A* Add ISA PnP support.
1N/A* Add more filesystems support (NTFS, etc.)
1N/A* Add more remote console support (parallel and net).
1N/A* Add (real) RAID support.
1N/A? Add a partition naming syntax that means ``the first partition of
1N/A this type''. We need this for clean Hurd install floppies.
1N/A Nope. Improving the `find' command would solve this problem.
1N/A* Add CDROM-chainloading support. It would be enough to support only
1N/A BIOSes which have bootable-CDROM support (so you may use the "Bootable
1N/A CDROM" BIOS calls). It is not trivial to support BIOSes without the
1N/A capability to boot CDROM.
1N/A? Divide pxegrub into two parts, so the initial image doesn't exceed
1N/A the 32KB limit. I'm not sure if this is really necessary, because the
1N/A PXE standard just says that it is _recommended_ to improve the
1N/A modularity of a boot image. Obviously, this reason doesn't apply to
1N/A GRUB, as pxegrub is merely a secondary boot loader. So whether this
1N/A task should be done depends on if existing PXE ROMs support >32KB
1N/A images or not, after all.