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Re: Sparc bootblock
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: Sparc bootblock |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:13:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Bart Grantham <address@hidden> writes:
> Heh. I looked into this and I'm definitely going the init-program
> route. I don't think that there's a platform independent way of doing
> relocation and I don't really feel that it's in the spirit of OF
> anyways. Besides, writing F-Code is mind-bending enough as it is. :)
For loading grubof you do not need to relocate anything.
>>>- verify that the code works on PPC, and if not, try to make it work so
>>>that there's a unified bootblock [not sure if this is reasonable as I'm
>>>not as familiar with how PPC OF boots... how similiar is it to Sparc?]
>> I think this one can't be done without making the FCode grow quite
>> big.
>
> Perhaps. But I'll try for it anyways because if it's possible, I'd
> like to have it as a workable alternative for PPC users who aren't
> using a filesystem their PROM understands. For example, someone
> porting ReactOS (NTFS) or HaikuOS (BFS) to PPC. (Hey! Don't
> laugh... it could happen! ;) )
In that case people usually create a filesystem and put GRUB on it.
--
Marco
- Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released, (continued)
- Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released, Marco Gerards, 2005/10/16
- Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released, Cyril Plisko, 2005/10/16
- Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released, Marco Gerards, 2005/10/16
- Sparc bootblock [Was: SFS breaks PPC build ], Bart Grantham, 2005/10/17
- Re: Sparc bootblock, Marco Gerards, 2005/10/17
- Re: Sparc bootblock, Cyril Plisko, 2005/10/17
- Re: Sparc bootblock, Andrei Warkentin, 2005/10/17
- Re: Sparc bootblock [Was: SFS breaks PPC build ], Andrei Warkentin, 2005/10/17
- Re: Sparc bootblock [Was: SFS breaks PPC build ], Vincent Pelletier, 2005/10/17
- Re: Sparc bootblock [Was: SFS breaks PPC build ], Bart Grantham, 2005/10/17
- Re: Sparc bootblock,
Marco Gerards <=
Re: GRUB 1.91 is released, Joe Ciccone, 2005/10/16