From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to chainload grub on different platforms?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:16:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D05E2A.8070203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CDE4F4.9070903@gmail.com>
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On 24.02.2016 18:14, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> On x86 we can use multiboot (on in exceptional case chainload boot block).
>
> On EFI we can use chainloader to launch EFI binary.
>
> What can we do on PowerPC? SPARC? ARM? MIPS?
>
> I think we really need some generic platform-independent interface to
> load another grub binary.
>
Currently we have:
pc: multiboot
*-efi: chainloader
i386-multiboot: multiboot
*-coreboot: chainloader
*-xen: linux
mips-loongson: linux
arm-uboot: linux
Nothing:
*-ieee1275
mips(el)-arc
Nothing, flash-only targets:
i386-qemu
mips-qemu_mips
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2016-02-24 17:14 How to chainload grub on different platforms? Andrei Borzenkov
2016-02-26 14:16 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
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