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On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 02:46:30AM -0200, Diego Viola wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I would like to do some cleanup on the README, for example, I see it
>> still mentions LILO in a few places, e.g.
>>
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/README#L256-L258
>>
>> And:
>>
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/README#L295-L317
>>
>> Is this still relevant today? Can I send a patch to remove it from the
>> README? Any objections?
>
> What for? LILO still works just fine here, TYVM.
>

I know LILO still works fine, and I know the project is still alive.

>> Could you guys also help me identify other parts in the README that
>> are not relevant anymore today?
>>
>> I understand some people still use LILO but most don't anymore, so I
>> would like to help keep the README updated to reflect on what the
>> current standards and needs are.
>
> _What_ current standards?

Perhaps not "standards" but there are other bootloaders these days,
GRUB and systemd-boot being one of them.

Shouldn't the README be generic or neutral about bootloaders?

See this message from Jonathan Corbet where he gave his opinion on this:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/10/602

Thanks,

Diego


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