From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EJc5Z-0003Tp-23 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:23:05 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EJc5M-0003Rl-HA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:22:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EJc56-0003Pf-OP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:22:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJc53-0003Fk-KG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:22:33 -0400 Received: from [64.246.60.36] (helo=orange.8dg.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EJbxa-00014i-PD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:14:50 -0400 Received: from p66-178.acedsl.com ([66.114.66.178] helo=[192.168.186.39]) by orange.8dg.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1EJbx3-00036b-9C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:14:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4336F710.8030000@bartgrantham.com> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:14:24 -0400 From: Bart Grantham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4323B40E.20909@bartgrantham.com> <43252D74.5050001@yahoo.fr> <4333AEF4.6010205@bartgrantham.com> <87fyrvdh1l.fsf@student.han.nl> <4335D770.6050002@chumps.net> <87vf0pa067.fsf@student.han.nl> In-Reply-To: <87vf0pa067.fsf@student.han.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orange.8dg.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - bartgrantham.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: GRUB2 Sparc 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: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:22:57 -0000 Marco Gerards wrote: > Bart Grantham writes: > >>Didn't want to pollute the list with my dumb questions, so this is >>addressed only to you. :) > > > You can send anything related to GRUB2 to grub-devel, don't worry > about that. The advantage of a mailinglist is that everyone can > reply. Ok. Replied to list. >>Is this to say that an f-code bootsector is underway (or maybe even >>complete)? > > At the moment only Vincent is working on the sparc specific part of > GRUB 2. I think making GRUB 2 actually useful on the sparc is of > higher priority to him (for example writing a linux loader). Would > you like to help us writing a f-code bootsector? Well, I did halfway learn Forth a couple years ago in an attempt to port my hobby OS over to sparc, and I have both an Ultra 5 and a Blue&White Mac G3, so I can do some cross-platform testing. Desite this, I find it hard to believe I'm the most qualified of this crowd to do this. ;) Let me think about it some. I'd be in WAY over my head, as I haven't really thought through how the f-code<->grub2 interface would be structured. Are there any docs or thoughts on this from the group? How is the direct stage1 -> stage2 process being handled on x86 without the stage1.5 middleman? Specifically, how are you handling different filesystem structures in the boot sector? Bart