From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Lftub-00006U-V4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:37:46 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LftuY-00005h-DU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:37:42 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LftuW-000059-FG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:37:41 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45992 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LftuW-000053-0z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:37:40 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:52051) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LftuV-0003Cs-GS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:37:39 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lftme-0004uM-JC; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:29:33 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LftuS-0005M7-N8; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:37:36 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:37:36 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: David Miller Message-ID: <20090307103736.GC20540@thorin> References: <20090304.173209.205614276.davem@davemloft.net> <20090306190110.GC28703@thorin> <20090306.163847.69930483.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090306.163847.69930483.davem@davemloft.net> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches. 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: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:37:43 -0000 On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:38:47PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Robert Millan > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:01:10 +0100 > > > In the future, please send followup patches in the same thread. It helps > > keeping track of things, which is quite hard for us to keep up with already.. > > Sure no problem. > > What's going to happen with these patches? Well, we need time both for the paperwork and for reviewing them. I'm not sure how many of us are experienced with sparc (Vincent? Who else?). I at least can comment on Ieee1275 stuff, so does Pavel, Marco, Manoel and probably others. We'll get there. Just be patient :-) > I am able to boot into the GRUB kernel prompt on my test system, > I have a lot of new code written, I'm _EXTREMELY_ motivated > and want to get this all working fully in the next week or so. I'm very interested to see proper sparc support completed/merged. Your effort is much appreciated. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."