Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] grub powerpc64 little-endian enablement

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

В Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:56:02 -0300
Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> пишет:

> From: Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@br.ibm.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At the beginning of the year we provide a patchset that enabled GRUB for
> little-endian PowerPC. Our approach at the time was to build GRUB itself and
> its tools in 64-bit little-endian. One of the reasons of build in 64-bit is
> to avoid 32-bit dependencies in the distro and build a system entirely 64-bit.
> 
> This patchset was not welcomed at the time because it would bring a
> high-maintainance-cost, without real gain since it could just be cross-compiled.
> 
> After that, Brent Baude, Vladmir (phcoder) and I started to work in a solution
> that would cross-compile but without 32-bit dependencies. This patchset is the
> result of this new approach. It's based on the work of Brent Baude, Vladimir
> (phcoder), and Tomohiro.
> 
> It can be devided in two parts:
> 
>   1) Skip libgcc dependency just for ppc64el (patch 1 and 2);

This is now default for all platforms

>   2) Check elf endianess and byteswap if necessary (patch 3);
>

That's still pending.
 
> The result is GRUB itself in 32-bit BE and its tools in 64-bit LE. This solution
> satisfies the needs of the distros. I tested it in three different distros, in
> both endianess and it's fine.
> 
> If thoses patches were accepted we will have an official solution. Nowadays,
> distros are taking diffrent approachs. Some of then are using the original
> solutions and others are using cross-compiler.
>

Could you resend missing bits rebased to current head?