From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd9CN-0002Wp-VM for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:25:15 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd9CL-0002Vx-2J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:25:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41389 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd9CK-0002Vl-Kq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:25:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd9CJ-0005DO-K8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:25:12 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:49598) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd9CJ-0005DE-9j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:25:11 -0500 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so771639bwz.8 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:25:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=nXEaQIwLZIiowmLA8r59ereAoyk29NS5JSXapdVhZUY=; b=Gys4qEsM1aTP9eEGyirzmd013uVMb+R6NrUkmQRWJojBF1sDZCTpMUCczOH6J3L4k3 Rq1X5J21WHapGmFDVeVr1j+tBZiu/5aVV6zw9kxVj1LgV2QlTXozr+5fDlBClhxRsi7l qzxpk9I2JEw05jx8xlmtTLUFFA0r9Lhq4ZPQs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=xpMPmDab4d1LtNlUSQ4B9bquImgpVetMVuZoYbc8CBylzyVA9D7bwxDK1lGhEKM5C2 8VC0IRDgbi7Emrk3QvInZIFXH8Z0R064rsmnv5pKqKvXDlWQKWzevl3pRiMwBzy0D9Ub km8v7jZJ1OgmSVNXlIDKiUTvVKfU5sNy4uTgo= Received: by 10.204.143.139 with SMTP id v11mr1077081bku.98.1265318709379; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs49.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm304303bwz.1.2010.02.04.13.25.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:25:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B6B3B27.2050704@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:24:55 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCA815F2404EA566C38C417D4" X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: Comphuter@ICB.at, mattst88@gmail.com, Linux on Alpha processors Subject: Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:25:13 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCA815F2404EA566C38C417D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? > > =20 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigCA815F2404EA566C38C417D4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF0EAREKAAYFAktrOy4ACgkQNak7dOguQgmBOgD4/i0E+gObdz6PcsJ5HAe5A6AG o5qeZwAOtwfpJT7rgwD/ajr5OsF/jSN7yDKunnE8yQW+Y9gk3LgWYD3E3v4itwc= =7ahG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCA815F2404EA566C38C417D4--