Re: PPC porting status

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Maurizio Boriani <baux@member.fsf.org> writes:

>     Marco> So feel free to pick a task or suggestion something
>     Marco> yourself.  What will help me the most is the module loading
>     Marco> support because I will not do that in short term.  But
>     Marco> whatever you do, please tell us before you start and keep
>     Marco> us informed about the progress.
>
> ok :) I'd like to have a look to linux loader and when it'll work 
> (if I'll be able to do so :) ) try to use for booting a little dummy kernel and 
> dummy modules for chailoader development.

The load I wrote was for PUPA.  I just thrown it in the CVS checkout
of GRUB 2 I have here.  It appears to work fine.  It loads linux and
shows an error about passing init= to the kernel.

That seems fine because I don't set up arguments and the incorrect
root partition is used.  So it seems the linux loader does not have
the bug that it had before.

I think I can better work on linux loading myself because it seems to
work now (for unknown reasons, I guess because of some other bugfixes)
and it is almost finished.  I hope you don't mind and the other tasks
were clear to you so you can focus on another part of the port.

thanks,
Marco