From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ERYkF-0004ts-8G for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:25:55 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERYkD-0004su-Fy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:25:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERYkB-0004s6-Ky for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:25:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERYkB-0004s3-Ht for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:25:51 -0400 Received: from [217.12.11.95] (helo=smtp006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERYkB-00088s-EO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:25:51 -0400 Received: (qmail 33637 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2005 16:59:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type; b=eAtaIWGm/08gaKIidG2HOayGOzRwczy/lyIYQW+ohi7bw7AjswhXBp2yPn33TnRi0rZElM69Oo1q4gduEiyO7fMis6JpQfpE1YgZDCduxdjT1KmpC29Bsf1did1psH038HAPciR75lbVuJchrCgtKNT+SiAkctr76JKxXAoyQAU= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (subdino2004@82.127.206.55 with plain) by smtp006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2005 16:59:42 -0000 Message-ID: <4353D881.3090503@yahoo.fr> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:59:45 +0200 From: Vincent Pelletier User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051010) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200510152015.33096.okuji@enbug.org> <873bn1heag.fsf@student.han.nl> <87zmp99nfa.fsf@student.han.nl> <87vezx9m5e.fsf@student.han.nl> <87mzl99klb.fsf@student.han.nl> <43535305.3050002@bartgrantham.com> In-Reply-To: <43535305.3050002@bartgrantham.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0C86EC85D1BBD0802E485F07" Subject: Re: Sparc bootblock [Was: SFS breaks PPC build ] 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, 17 Oct 2005 17:25:53 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0C86EC85D1BBD0802E485F07 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bart Grantham wrote: > - have it verify that the file at the configured sector(s) is an ELF file Quite easy if we stick to the header signature. > - follow through and make sure it properly boots an ELF image (right now > it only gets it into memory) I think there are 2 ways : -write your own Forth ELF relocating code (might be fun, but beside that...) -have the "init-program" command do this work for you, which require you to load the image where "boot net" loads it (or maybe other commands, but for now I only know about boot net as it is the only way to currently boot grub2 on sparc64 ;) ). > - verify that the code works on PPC, and if not, try to make it work so > that there's a unified bootblock [not sure if this is reasonable as I'm > not as familiar with how PPC OF boots... how similiar is it to Sparc?] I think this one can't be done without making the FCode grow quite big. > - same for sparc32 I would be interested if the port could be unified in 32bits. For now I built it 64bits - don't ask why :) - but if a 32bits build can work both on sparc32 and sparc64, I think it would be great for maintenance. Vincent Pelletier --------------enig0C86EC85D1BBD0802E485F07 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDU9iFFEQoKRQyjtURApwrAJ9O3Ns3w0+UJzZZ5u018nGkC3hD1QCfcZjf 7ieCZfcPc+1oOm0dd88jBr0= =bVpi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0C86EC85D1BBD0802E485F07-- ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com