Re: [PATCH]: grub: Add sparc64 support code.

[David Miller]

From: David Miller <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:42:18 -0700 (PDT)

Ho hum, the grub-devel "posting size monster" is likely going
to eat this one.

If you want to review this patch, I've put a copy up at:

        http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/0004-grub-Add-sparc64-support-code.patch

> Ok, this gets sparc64 building again and adds the necessary seperation
> of the mkdevicemap implementation so we can use escaped openfirmware
> path names instead of "(hdX)" and "(fdX)" as is customary on i386.
> a
> Code is added to convert OS path names into openfirmware device
> paths.  With some very simple changes, this code can be adapted
> to powerpc.  This is not done yet, but when it is then grub will
> no longer depend upon the 'ofpathname' program on powerpc.
> 
> We're pretty close to working on sparc64 with this patch.  What
> remains is:
> 
> 1) Fleshing out and implementing the OF path name escaping for
>    device map entries.
> 
> 2) Fixing how FS UUID code can open the same device multiple times
>    at once, which doesn't work on OpenBoot.
> 
> I have patches for #2 and will begin working on #1 now.
> 
> 2009-04-19  David S. Miller  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * util/sparc64/ieee1275/misc.c: New file.
>       * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-setup.c: New file.
>       * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-ofpathname.c: New file.
>       * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-mkimage.c: New file.
>       * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-install.in: New file.
>       * util/ieee1275/ofpath.c: New file.
>       * util/ieee1275/devicemap.c: New file.
>       * util/devicemap.c: New file.
>       * util/deviceiter.c: New file.
>       * kern/sparc64/ieee1275/init.c: New file.
>       * include/grub/util/ofpath.h: New file.
>       * include/grub/util/deviceiter.h: New file.
>       * util/grub-mkdevicemap.c: Include deviceiter.h.
>       Implement using grub_util_emit_devicemap_entry and
>       grub_util_iterate_devices.
>       * conf/i386-corebook.rmk: Build util/deviceiter.c and
>       util/devicemap.c into grub-mkdevicemap
>       * conf/i386-efi.rmk: Likewise.
>       * conf/i386-ieee1275.rmk: Likewise.
>       * conf/i386-pc.rmk: Likewise.
>       * conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk: Likewise.
>       * conf/sparc64-ieee1275.rmk: Add rules to build boot block
>       images and installation utilities.  Build kernel as image
>       instead of as elf binary.  Use common rules as much as possible.