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PPC Port
From: |
Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
PPC Port |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:12:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Some minutes ago I've committed the PPC port of GRUB 2. It is not
completely done yet, this mail is to describe some bugs and short
comings of it.
- After the configure test the endian in config.h is not correct, you
need to manually correct this after running configure.
- There is some problem with linking, for some weird reason only
cross compiling works for me.
- It allocates memory that should not be allocated. (resulting in a
crash in some cases).
- There is no loader yet. I have written a linux loader, but it is
far from done.
- Some things in the firmware are not clear to me yet. I marked those
with XXX.
- Modules.
But there is a lot that does work. And that is just as important:
- Johan's ieee1275 functions.
- Accessing the disks like "cd", "hd" "ultra0", etc. Just by using
aliases instead of stupid device paths. :)
- Apple partition support.
- Console support (Capable of displaying the menu).
If someone has a question about this port, please ask me.
Unfortunately I won't have much time for GRUB hacking next months
because I'm quite busy with some other projects. Do not worry, I will
come back and implement all missing features and every required
feature one can think of. :)
Thanks,
Marco
- PPC Port,
Marco Gerards <=