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TODO List

NOTE: It is desirable to move these items into the Task Tracker.

In case you are not a GRUB developer, please put feature requests for GRUB 2 on the FeatureRequests page or send an email to grub-devel@gnu.org . Please don't send feature requests for GRUB Legacy there.

General Issues

• Add journal playback support for all journaling filesystems.

• Add support for internationalization (See AboutInternationalization). !!!

• Write a manual. !!

• Add a fancy menu interface which utilizes the VideoSubsystem extensively with many eye-candies. This is important to beat GRUB legacy. (ColinBennett is working on this)

• Make multiboot portable. Perhaps even write a new standard.

• Implement ModuleLoading in grub-emu.

• Use GRUB memory management in grub-emu.

• Add missing commands (See CommandList). !

• Add missing features into the menu entry editor (such as C-t).
• Support for multiple fallback entries and default saving as in GRUB Legacy.
• Security-related features (i.e. password and lock).

• Look at the nested functions issue; removing nested functions is not an option. See NestedFunctions !!!

• Add support for partitions containing partitions, this is for example used for Solaris partitions in an Apple partition, but also in many other cases.
• Add support for creating a GRUB 2 Recovery CD on platforms where sensible.
• Add support to load compressed modules.

Scripting

• Integrate scripting with the configfile and the menu. !!!! (MarcoGerards)

• Add support for loops. (MarcoGerards)

• Add useful build-in variables. (MarcoGerards)

• Add the echo command (it should be capable of beeping). (MarcoGerards)

• Implement the test command, this currently is a dummy. !
• Make the parser reentrant. This will make the code cleaner and more robust. !!!

Networking

• Add support for network devices.
• Add support for UNDI.
• Make sure network devices on Open Firmware can be accessed.

• Implement a TCP/IP stack. (MarcoGerards)

Filesystems

• Add more filesystems (such as reiser3, reiser4, ntfs, cramfs and jffs2). !!

• HFS+ support. Perhaps this is required for an OS X loader on the PPC. !! (MarcoGerards)

• Fix XFS so the BTrees work. !! (MarcoGerards)

• Make sure JFS works. !! (MarcoGerards)

• Make sure all filesystems use fshelp. ! (MarcoGerards)

• Add regression tests. !! (MarcoGerards)

• Try to share more code. ! (MarcoGerards)

• A lot of testing needs to be done. !!
• Perhaps UUID support?

PC

• Add more loaders (such as NetBSD and FreeBSD). !!
• Complement missing features of Multiboot. Take a look at the source code for more info. !
• Add more terminals (finish VESA support). !
• Store the old MBR and add a command to place the old MBR back (?).

PPC & UltraSparc

• Add framebuffer terminal support. !
• Make key repeat work. !
• Merge common files - Remaining : kern/*/ieee1275/openfw.c
• Support netbooting.

(maybe more from PPC section)

PPC

• Rename "grubof" before external users start using that name. !!!
• Add more loaders. Especially a macos / chainloader. !!

• Investigate FAT12 on PowerMac OF (on small partition). The Linux HFS driver is not entirely reliable, and GRUB does not yet have HFS+ support. !

• Filter the devaliases so that devices with multiple aliases are only listed once. !
• Make GRUB appear in Mac firmware boot options screen (option key at boot).
• On systems where we cannot autodetect 'prefix', search all partitions for a grub.cfg.
• Support Old World Macintosh.
• The kernel is getting quite big, investigate if some things can be moved out of the kernel or if compression can be used.

UltraSparc

• Install on disk
• Grub emu
• Boot something
• Write a grub-install script to install grub and configure OF variables properly. This will be different from PPC because Sparc has openpromfs and is missing sysfs "devspec" links into the device tree.

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