From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OZ1jS-0001Ig-Dv for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:10:38 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37877 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZ1jO-00010j-Eo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:10:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ1YY-0001Zx-K9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:59:26 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:34671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ1YY-0001Zn-FR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:59:22 -0400 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so4758925bwz.0 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:59:21 -0700 (PDT) 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:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=XpGXPLzQr9mvYGAZ18RGCNNCRpB8+cWziUtqu11FE8o=; b=Av/LmoZhOupje4lW1deW2xQ5eoqlGliCVFVHZ/m6MZS6tdHp1QmVpihQCGVHpD0N4s sh68xC5h+kmRD8WDOj9oBBFaRapRsmw1jhby262ZbJbgaQ6EZaecij26zFMhWLdFuQ2b TeUlZUOc38bIXvXuP4s65QZ6BzvBxIIGjWf4M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=LN8aBaGq3YtbdiSv6R0BeWlQ/8FHElXhHXftu7ZjZnG1FrlctYhOoA81M5PLGR8hTK Jnd3qzXth1c4D9H/ob/kJLEAMgdMxaysloemSmueSsV5KmCsDau4/HAaHvrwzn6fHl2N Sxq1FG1RVIGa3jpvBW5hqtozUaYdaqTZ/1I2I= Received: by 10.204.30.200 with SMTP id v8mr12846602bkc.89.1279112359930; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:59:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (vpn-global-dhcp1-204.ethz.ch [129.132.208.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y2sm32671757bkx.20.2010.07.14.05.59.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C3DB49C.1020603@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:59:08 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100620 Icedove/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <86571.91888.qm@web58308.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <86571.91888.qm@web58308.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5EFEB1B56DF2057E6F27090B" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Grub IA64 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: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:10:36 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5EFEB1B56DF2057E6F27090B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07/14/2010 02:39 PM, Chinces Diana wrote: First of all HTML e-mail are annoying and bad netiquette. Please adjust your mailer > > =20 > > =09 > > Hi all, > > =20 > > We would be very interested in replacing elilo (the current Itanium > boot loader) with grub. > > =20 > > Could you help us with answering a few questions about this boot loader= ? > > 1. Can you tell us if this type of architecture is supported or > will be supported? > Tristan Gringold wrote the port and sent the patches but it was during the unmaintained period. When Robert Millan took over he imported the patches and port is availabale from http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/ia64/ (bzr checkout). Judging by code port looks fairly usable except module loading. Unfortunately we have no testers so I can't say what happens if you try to boot it. I've contacted someone from HP if I could eventually have a IA64 workstation to finish the port. > > 2. Is there a way in which we could contribute on making this > happen? > Module loading. Additional loaders. And lots and lots of testing > > 3. How does chainloading behave on network boot? Is this possible= ? > > =20 > Chainloading is to be avoided unless really needed to. I recommend using the native protocol (e.g. linux module for linux). This is especially true for wacky platforms like EFI (never tested it on IA64 but on ia32 and x64 it's PITN) > > Thanks, > > Diana chinces > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 --------------enig5EFEB1B56DF2057E6F27090B 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/ iF4EAREKAAYFAkw9tJwACgkQNak7dOguQglZJQD/aSXSSh25r8QhyuWWY39xo3yR QDdWc5HpU8wnQJKkKu8A/3Xh7WG/FBQaQoBGKn7+Nbta+ofuz2f1ypETvMRMUf1J =R33X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5EFEB1B56DF2057E6F27090B--