From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1BiyEF-0001V1-2y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:28:03 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BiyEE-0001Ut-7a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:28:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BiyEC-0001SD-Ap for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:28:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BiyEC-0001Ry-74 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:28:00 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BiyBy-0005ib-7x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:25:42 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083F9824F for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:22:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06344-05 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AD38238 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (a82-92-27-129.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B990C045 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87vfgyjzp4.fsf@yahoo.it> From: Marco Gerards Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:22:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?=28Kolbj=F8rn?= Barmen's message of "Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:42:14 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: <878ydtkv5n.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: PPC porting status X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:28:02 -0000 Kolbj=F8rn Barmen 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