From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ppc patch] Old World Mac booting
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:03:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8ij7e63.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410061358.34437.hollis@penguinppc.org> (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:58:34 +0000")
Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:
> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 18:27, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:
>> > This patch allows GRUB to boot via quik's stage1. Marco doesn't believe
>> > we should depend on quik for a stage1 long-term, but for now it's working
>> > great.
>>
>> Right. A stage1 would be something for the todo list. Do you want to
>> work on that?
>
> Yes, I will do that if nobody else gets to it, but it's a bit lower on my list
> than some other things (like adding a proper modularized "suspend" command
> and removing the use of BAT mappings).
Ok.
> I can't look right now, but does x86 GRUB need to use a block list for an
> early stage? If so, could someone point me to the structures used? I'd like
> to use that as my model...
On the PC there is a block of 32KB (IIRC) that can be used for the
core module. Can't this be done on the old world as well? IIRC there
is a 32KB block on the HFS filesystem.
Thanks,
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-03 18:59 [ppc patch] Old World Mac booting Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-06 18:27 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-06 13:58 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-06 21:03 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2004-10-07 9:26 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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