Felix Zielcke wrote:
> David are you still there?
> And also anyone who has access to a powerpc machine (and experience)?
>
> In Debian we the problem that the `__ashldi3' and `__bswapsi2' symbols
> can't be found in the grub-ieee1275 build on powerpc and also sparc.
>
>   
I've come across the same problem when porting grub2 to MIPS. The
solution is the attached patch. I'll test it today on my imac g3
> Jordi already noticed this with the 1.96+20090721-4 IIRC and now other
> people noticed this with 1.97~beta3
> AFAICS there wasn't anything relevant changed on our side, so seems to
> be a gcc issue.
>
> `__ashldi3' is listed in include/grub/powerpc/libgcc.h and `__bswapsi2'
> in the sparc64 header.
> But something has now changed that this isn't enough anymore, at least
> in Debian.
>
> We used gcc 4.3.3 at the time Jordi noticed this and now switched to
> gcc-4.4.1.
>
> And David we still have this sparc bug open, which I forwared to
> grub-devel:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538030
>
>
>   


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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git