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David Miller wrote:
> Here is a series of patches that fix the most obvious sparc bugs and
> get the grub2 tree building again.
> 
> I have code for boot/ that will implement the sparc boot blocks and
> things of that nature, but that will come later.
> 
> First things first, let's get it to actually build. :)

Thanks for looking at it. It has been rotting for some time now.

Basic principle is to look how it is done on other archs (mainly x86 at
this time). And adapt same principle there too. If those match quite
close each other it is easier to keep them all in sync...