From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Reif Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:22:36 +0000 Subject: Re: SILO & Ext4 Message-Id: <4A265CFC.8000602@earthlink.net> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Robert Reif > Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:29:25 -0400 > > >> David Miller wrote: >> >>> All of my effort has been spent on adding sparc support to >>> grub2. >>> >>> >>> >> Will it include sparc32 support? >> > > No. > > >> Will it increase the kernel size that can be loaded? >> > > The limit is now at 64MB on sparc64, isn't that enough? > And what is the limit on sparc32? The silo that comes with debian etch will not load a kernel compiled with the default configuration. It hasn't for a long time. Currently you have to disable virtually every option just to get a kernel that loads. Sparc32 has been broken for a while because you can't load a kernel that does anything.