Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] grub powerpc64 little-endian enablement

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

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В Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:56:02 -0300
Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> пишет:

> From: Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@br.ibm.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At the beginning of the year we provide a patchset that enabled GRUB for
> little-endian PowerPC. Our approach at the time was to build GRUB itself and
> its tools in 64-bit little-endian. One of the reasons of build in 64-bit is
> to avoid 32-bit dependencies in the distro and build a system entirely 64-bit.
> 
> This patchset was not welcomed at the time because it would bring a
> high-maintainance-cost, without real gain since it could just be cross-compiled.
> 
> After that, Brent Baude, Vladmir (phcoder) and I started to work in a solution
> that would cross-compile but without 32-bit dependencies. This patchset is the
> result of this new approach. It's based on the work of Brent Baude, Vladimir
> (phcoder), and Tomohiro.
> 
> It can be devided in two parts:
> 
>   1) Skip libgcc dependency just for ppc64el (patch 1 and 2);
>   2) Check elf endianess and byteswap if necessary (patch 3);
> 
> The result is GRUB itself in 32-bit BE and its tools in 64-bit LE. This solution
> satisfies the needs of the distros. I tested it in three different distros, in
> both endianess and it's fine.
> 

Unfortunately I'm still not able to boot this version on QEMU. I build
on openSUSE for three acrhs - ppc, ppc64, ppc64le. First two are OK and
boot successfully. Third one does not work - it ends up in exception. I
get initial GRUB greeting and that's all.

Same problem I got with Vladimir libgcc patch series.

It could be toolkit issue of course; but still it would need fixing
before we can merge it.

Could you help in debugging this issue? I have near to zero experience
with PPC; I can do what you tell me, but not much more.

I run it with

qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -cdrom /tmp/grub2-ppc64le.iso -boot d

Attached is screenshot of error.



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