From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:51:01 +1100 > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:51, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:56:56 -0500 (EST) >> >>> I'm looking into the rest. >> >> So just adding the stubs (or your idea, linking with libc) doesn't >> work at all. >> >> All the new features in libext2 that get linked in cause the second >> stage bootloader image to grow too large. >> >> I'll just have to extract the parts of libext2 that we actually need >> into a stripped down local copy in SILO and I guess this will make >> us immune to this issue showing up again in the future. > > Would it make sense to get Grub working on Sparc so we can abandon > SILO and reduce our maintenance burden to just the Sparc-specific > parts of Grub? The sparc64 port is already in there and mostly works but it needs tons of bug fixing and testing. However the GRUB maintainer is a prick and there is a lot of infighting in the project so I stopped doing GRUB work a very long time ago. For the time being it's quicker to do add a quick piece of ext2 r/o support code to SILO, and that's what I'm already working on. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
