From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1Rsgqs-00053Y-Qa for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:32:22 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rsgqo-0004u9-U5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:32:20 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rsgqn-0005xn-Ik for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:32:18 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:55281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rsgqn-0005xi-Dz; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:32:17 -0500 Received: by wera13 with SMTP id a13so1671170wer.0 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:32:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tbu9DH2+Feh7UMd0sZCG7RTNLJ6pB1NYipQMQb0E4r8=; b=LUtFjsarRF1283JIZpW7oM9bkuO2eHJyUPdUVard/fgmDUHEuHMZN+Urvycid5blMj eHd9mGwMp57E/TIgFwJ6EldyDrqDB6Bp2h71q7UQVcuHdl2km7v7wJNQHaRc4Y/PwPBz DKzOILaCPIwY+WsyuhM/6NHkb9w4hbn8tgcNQ= Received: by 10.216.132.32 with SMTP id n32mr8154252wei.41.1328128336065; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:32:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (134-125.62-81.cust.bluewin.ch. [81.62.125.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l6sm47112457wiv.11.2012.02.01.12.32.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:32:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F29A14C.5000901@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:32:12 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20120104 Icedove/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: OLPC status Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 Cc: Robert Millan X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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, 01 Feb 2012 20:32:20 -0000 Is anybody testing GRUB on OLPC at all? I have neither it nor any other i386-ieee1275 (I don't even know if there is one other than using coreboot+ieee1275, which is suboptimal, since you can achieve better results with GRUB as payload, if not it's a bug). It also doesn't seem to be any recent reports of GRUB either succeeding or failing on it. Additionally it seems that OLPC is very selective about whom to give the laptop and it comes tivoized. While one can use qemu with ieee1275, I don't know how representative it is. Some of the code like "nand" disks are available in qemu. In light of this OLPC port is a likely candidate for removal. But since it benefits from much of shared code for both i386 and ieee1275 it's easy to keep around but guaranteeing any quality is essentially impossible. I see following courses of action: 1) Find someone who is willing to test from time to time. 2) If someone can point me to a way to get one without running into pretty high cost and shipping fees (few offers I saw on ebay make it available only in USA and cost more than an ARM system and if I buy a system for porting, ARM is more important), I can give it a spin evry now and then and before releases. 3) Put prominent warnings and discourage people to use it 4) Remove the port altogether -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko