From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PPC porting status
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:22:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ydtkv5n.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407091338280.13720@halbrend.uninett.no> (Kolbjørn Barmen's message of "Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:42:14 +0200 (CEST)")
Kolbjørn Barmen <Kolbjorn.Barmen@uninett.no> writes:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Maurizio Boriani wrote:
>
>> 3) What's the global state of ppc port?
>
> Just curious, what is the aim of Grub on PPC? All PPC machines I know
> of have firmwares that allow multiboot already,
> exception being old pre-openfirmware macs which rely on booting macos
> anyways.
The problem with open firmware is that it does not support all
filesystems. For example, you can not load your kernel from a ext2 or
jfs filesystem.
Another disadvantage is that the firmware does not have a nice boot
menu.
The most important reason for me to work on this port is because there
is a need for multiboot support. I don't mean the multiboot you
talked about (multiple OS'es), but I mean the multiboot specification.
This is required for some OS'es to boot, GNU/Hurd for example.
--
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-08 15:17 PPC porting status Maurizio Boriani
2004-07-08 21:37 ` Marco Gerards
2004-07-09 10:26 ` Maurizio Boriani
2004-07-09 16:17 ` Marco Gerards
2004-07-11 20:13 ` Marco Gerards
2004-07-12 9:00 ` Maurizio Boriani
2004-08-12 13:03 ` Marco Gerards
2004-07-11 14:38 ` Marco Gerards
2004-07-09 11:42 ` Kolbjørn Barmen
2004-07-09 16:22 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
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