From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DJdp6-0004zw-Ee for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:41:56 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJdp4-0004yT-Qx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:41:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJdp2-0004xi-CO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:41:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJdom-0004aL-SC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:41:36 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJdxc-0005Cf-IW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:50:44 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71D2950D for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:48:38 +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 19190-06 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:48:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33209454 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:48:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAD8C046 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:48:36 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:48:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:42:04 -0500") Message-ID: <87hdiil3dl.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (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: PPC stack 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: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:41:55 -0000 Hollis Blanchard writes: > Marco, can you remind me why we stopped assigning our own stack on > PPC? I seem to recall something failing, but I don't remember what. IIRC it was because OF supplies a stack anyway and because GRUB did not work on the pegasos because of that. > I've found that some things work better when we use our own stack. For > example, running "suspend" does not spew a bunch of OF messages to the > screen, but rather quietly returns to the OF prompt. Also, I think the > trap exception doesn't work (crashes OF) when we use the OF-assigned > stack, but I will try to investigate more later. Please do. If you want me to set stuff on the pegasos or powerbook, just ask. -- Marco