[coreboot] High demand for CLI payload: Use GRUB 2?

Scott Duplichan scott at notabs.org
Fri Jan 24 03:14:07 CET 2014


mrnuke [mailto:mr.nuke.me at gmail.com] wrote:

]On Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:59:21 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
]> Do you also know if GRUB 2 does not fulfill one of these requirements?
]> 
]GRUB2 doesn't meet several requirements that vendors usually have:
]* must be crappily coded (ignoring the GNU coding standard here)
]* code must be unreadable to the casual trained observer
]* must be full of redundancy
]* must contain many superfluous functions
]* must be hard to get working (vendors want to add value, right?)
]* requires Visual Studio to compile

UEFI shell of course.
Thanks,
Scott

]I can't speak for older versions of GRUB2, but 2.02 beta fails to fulfill any 
]and all of the above requirements.
]
]Alex





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