From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Comphuter@ICB.at, mattst88@gmail.com,
Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:24:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6B3B27.2050704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4198de60901271232q76ebb2c6pba3adb4fcd2ffa47@mail.gmail.com>
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Matt Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I learned today that GRUB 2 aims to be cross platform and already
> supports in some form PPC.
>
> Is there any interest in supporting the DEC Alpha (SRM) platform?
>
>
Is there still any interest in this? I have a possibility of buying
cheaply an Alpha Workstation. If I do I can lend a hand in porting but I
don't want to do the whole porting myself. (nor I see any point if
nobody is interested in it)
> According to the Current Status [*] page, BSD partition maps are
> already supported, so maybe the only thing to be done is the
> SRM-specific code?
>
> Alpha users currently use the long unmaintained aboot bootloader.
> Possibly code could be reused from aboot.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Turner
>
> [*] http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus
>
>
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>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-27 20:32 GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha? Matt Turner
2009-01-27 20:44 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2010-02-04 21:24 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2010-02-05 12:43 ` Felix Zielcke
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