Re: TR: VFAT, NTFS, PE executable support

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: "Jochen Hoenicke" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: TR: VFAT, NTFS, PE executable support
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:11:14 +0100 (MET)

> There is a chinese company called Bluepoint Linux
> (http://www.bluepoint.com.cn/), who distributes a modified version
> of grub based on 0.5.94 containing additional drivers like NTFS, BeFS
> and ISO9660 (cdrom).  It may be worthwile to look at this more
> closely and ask them if they want to merge some of their changes.  
> 
> Sorry, I don't have a URL to their grub sources handy, I found them
> surfing their home page (which was quite difficult, since most of
> their pages are in chinese).  

If you are interested in their version, you can obtain the source rpm
from my ftp server. The URL is:

ftp://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/private/grub-0.5.94-2BP.src.rpm

I must admit that their version is quite interesting and they hired a
good hacker!

Basically, their main changes from 0.5.94 are:
* Add VESA support.
* Add Chinese support, based on GRUB I18N by Takeuchi-san.
* Add support for several filesystems (iso9660, BeFS, NTFS, and
  ReiserFS).
* Add Linux romfs support (so their version can load kernel modules
  without an initrd).
* Add CDROM support (although it seems not to work correctly because
  of buggy BIOSes).
* Add dummy filesystem support.

I think the dummy filesystem interface is a very good idea.

Okuji