From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JGujt-0004FH-Tw for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:22:54 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGujr-0004D0-AY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:22:51 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGujp-0004BV-Ib for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:22:50 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGujp-0004BI-Ce for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:22:49 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGujo-0006Oe-SM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:22:48 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JGujk-0000Lg-0i; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:22:47 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JGuhv-0001yr-LM; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:20:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:20:51 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: Torsten Duwe Message-ID: <20080121112051.GB7378@thorin> References: <20080121013836.GA8887@thorin> <200801210813.41382.duwe@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200801210813.41382.duwe@lst.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:22:51 -0000 On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:13:36AM +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > > This makes multiboot2 work on i386-ieee1275. Tested both with elf32 and > > elf64 images. > > > grub2/loader/powerpc/ieee1275 > ^^^^^^ > > #elif defined(__i386__) > > NAK. > > Please do not commit that. It's a nice hack I can try, but the real solution > needs cleanup! Once you start serious Open Firmware support for x86, ieee1275 > must not reside beneath PPC any longer. BTW sparc has OFW, too. This file needs to move. There's nothing powerpc-specific about it, really, other than this line. Writing new files or duplicating code when there's no reason to, leads to bitrot. This happened to the sparc64 port, and I want to avoid it. What I had in mind is getting the i386-ieee1275 port fully functional, and then move the files that are in powerpc/ directories to their corresponding ieee1275/ ones. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)