This reply does not seem to have made it to bug-hurd. Maybe not so usable to get support for USB in Hurd, but anyway.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> Reply-to: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-de...@gnu.org> To: grub-de...@gnu.org Subject: Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks? Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:09:59 +0200 On 07/13/2010 08:33 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > Sorry for chiming in here, maybe this is a shot in the dark. Grub has > made some progress with USB interfaces by Ales Nesrsta, see e.g. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-07/msg00079.html > > Can this (GNU) work be reusable for Hurd? > > GRUB USB stack isn't meant for a complete OS. It works in polling mode which has only minimal impact in bootloader but will stall the CPU in a real kernel. Licensing can be another problem: I don't know if Hurd has already made it to GPLv3+. If the subsystem is useful technically we can look into it but a priori it's not a good place to copy from > Svante Signell > GNU and Hurd supporter > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > grub-de...@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list grub-de...@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
