GRUB 2 and GRUB Legacy
GRUB 2, which is a rewrite of GRUB, is alive and under development. GRUB 2 aims at merging sources from PUPA in order to create the next generation of GNU GRUB. A mailing list and a wiki have been setup for discussing the development of GRUB 2.
GRUB 2 has the following tasks:
* Create a compact core image. This will make Stage 1.5 unnecessary.
* Add support for dynamic loading to the core image, so that it can extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time.
* Add real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.
* Add a more object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, and OS loaders.
* Add support for internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on.
* Add an actual localization, based on the above internationalization support. We will target on Japanese as the first step.
* Segregate code specific to i386-pc from generic code, to make GNU GRUB portable.
* Add support for cross-platform installation.
* Develop additional software packages which will help our project and hopefully other projects.
why japanese first :evil::evil:
PUPA
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Important Notice: This project is not used any more, because we moved our effort to GRUB 2. See GRUB web site, for more information.
PUPA is a research project for the next generation of GNU GRUB. The most important goal is to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, and more powerful.
Our tasks are as follows:
* Create a compact core image. This will make Stage 1.5 unnecessary.
* Add support for dynamic loading to the core image, so that it can extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time.
* Add real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.
* Add a more object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, and OS loaders.
* Add support for internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on.
* Add an actual localization, based on the above internationalization support. We will target on Japanese as the first step.
* Segregate code specific to i386-pc from generic code, to make GNU GRUB portable.
* Add support for cross-platform installation.
* Develop additional software packages which will help our project and hopefully other projects.
We might tackle on these issues as well:
* Add a scripting language, to make GNU GRUB more customizable.
* Add support for other architectures (such as UltraSparc and PowerPC).
This project is supported by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
that's the reason :arrow: :evil::evil::evil:
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change the target from japanese to chinese
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