On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 15:38, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. As everything does. > 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. But it's a GNU project, surely it's full of fairies and unicorns and rainbows! .... </sarcasm> > 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. Fair enough. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- 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
