GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?

GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?

[Matt Turner]

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?

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

Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

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?

If you are planning to provide the code for it and maintain it :) (or
someone else).

> Alpha users currently use the long unmaintained aboot bootloader.
> Possibly code could be reused from aboot.

We are using GPL v3. And that is not joy either to copy code...

Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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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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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 22:24 +0100 schrieb Vladimir
'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko:
> 
> 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) 

Debian squeeze will probable be released without the alpha Architecture
[0] and Wikipedia tells there are no new Alphas sold since April 2007.
I think there are more important things to do then adding support for an
architecture which is already in the progress to die.

[0] http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html
-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer