From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ERZUp-0002Pe-Nt for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:14:03 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERZUo-0002PZ-O1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:14:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERZUn-0002PN-3C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:14:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERZUm-0002PK-VV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:14:01 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERZUm-0002kD-PA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:14:01 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED0885C0 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:13:59 +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 25463-09 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:13:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0CC852E for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:13:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E76C048 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:13:58 +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> <4353D881.3090503@yahoo.fr> <4353E6E9.8020105@bartgrantham.com> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:13:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4353E6E9.8020105@bartgrantham.com> (Bart Grantham's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:01:13 -0400") Message-ID: <87zmp8xb88.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 18:14:02 -0000 Bart Grantham writes: > Heh. I looked into this and I'm definitely going the init-program > route. I don't think that there's a platform independent way of doing > relocation and I don't really feel that it's in the spirit of OF > anyways. Besides, writing F-Code is mind-bending enough as it is. :) For loading grubof you do not need to relocate anything. >>>- 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?] >> I think this one can't be done without making the FCode grow quite >> big. > > Perhaps. But I'll try for it anyways because if it's possible, I'd > like to have it as a workable alternative for PPC users who aren't > using a filesystem their PROM understands. For example, someone > porting ReactOS (NTFS) or HaikuOS (BFS) to PPC. (Hey! Don't > laugh... it could happen! ;) ) In that case people usually create a filesystem and put GRUB on it. -- Marco