The following authors assigned copyright on their work to the FreeSoftware Foundation:Yoshinori K. Okuji designed and implemented the initial version.Jeroen Dekkers added initrd support, Multiboot support, and fixed bugsin ext2fs.
Omniflux added terminfo and serial support.Vincent Pelletier added Sparc64 support.Hollis Blanchard implemented many parts of PowerPC support.Tomas Ebenlendr added the command chainloader into the normal mode,fixed some bugs.Guillem Jover merged architecture-independent ELF support code.Vesa Jaaskelainen added VBE support.