From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 03:28:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259F916A403; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFED13C469; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:28:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4FAEB153E; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:28:05 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([210.51.165.229]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8BHVasvZQ9xP; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:27:59 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.217.12.249] (sina152-194.staff.sina.com.cn [61.135.152.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FF6EB08E9; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:27:59 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc: subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=gtCOuXs8tXSFPSQmbZt5XSaUeo8haJ7FjuS2Fd7MJQdTDO0gn4vxXOF/0sDhvPcze v2uzftluOI3J+h43ktgLg== Message-ID: <461B0438.8010602@delphij.net> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:27:52 +0800 From: LI Xin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Barros References: <20070409011723.GB74547@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070409094319.GB76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <70e8236f0704090808y5d305175wdc3cee5be1a26a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0704090808y5d305175wdc3cee5be1a26a9@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB95AB24F28725FDE71AEAAD5" Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek Subject: Re: ZFS: amd64, devd, root file system. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:28:08 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB95AB24F28725FDE71AEAAD5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Joao Barros wrote: > I was looking at how Solaris got support for booting off ZFS and the > patch to GRUB to support it. > Is it feasible for FreeBSD's boot loader? What would be the main > issue: technical or licensing? I think it's about licensing, i.e. the FreeBSD loader has to be free of licenses that does not allow others to freely redistribute, at very least, it must be able to work without such code, and does not link against these code by default. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enigB95AB24F28725FDE71AEAAD5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGGwQ4OfuToMruuMARCii9AJ0cM07+60RpO04ULbW41Nry2uX64wCggkZ1 Z104487f4s1r/3SDNxHzolE= =aAFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB95AB24F28725FDE71AEAAD5--