From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ERQHK-0005aU-Cr for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:23:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERQH2-0005Qm-Cs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:23:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERQEw-0004L0-Gv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:21:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERQEg-0004E7-Nh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:20:47 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERQEg-0003ab-H5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:20:46 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57FB85FB for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:20:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11488-08 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:20:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E517B85C0 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:20:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75BCC04B for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:20:39 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200510152015.33096.okuji@enbug.org> <873bn1heag.fsf@student.han.nl> <87zmp99nfa.fsf@student.han.nl> <87vezx9m5e.fsf@student.han.nl> <87mzl99klb.fsf@student.han.nl> <43535305.3050002@bartgrantham.com> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:20:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <43535305.3050002@bartgrantham.com> (Bart Grantham's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:30:13 -0400") Message-ID: <87br1oimg8.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: Sparc bootblock 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: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:23:26 -0000 Bart Grantham writes: > - verify that the code works on PPC, and if not, try to make it work > so that there's a unified bootblock [not sure if this is reasonable as > I'm not as familiar with how PPC OF boots... how similiar is it to > Sparc?] On the Open Firmware implementations on the PPC machines I worked with you can load an ELF file directly. Open Firmware has support for reading from block devices, parsing partition maps and it has support for some filesystems. So at least of the New World Mac, the Pegasos, etc. this is not required. Perhaps we need such bootblock for the old world mac... -- Marco