powerpc/sparc problems

[Felix Zielcke]

David are you still there?
And also anyone who has access to a powerpc machine (and experience)?

In Debian we the problem that the `__ashldi3' and `__bswapsi2' symbols
can't be found in the grub-ieee1275 build on powerpc and also sparc.

Jordi already noticed this with the 1.96+20090721-4 IIRC and now other
people noticed this with 1.97~beta3
AFAICS there wasn't anything relevant changed on our side, so seems to
be a gcc issue.

`__ashldi3' is listed in include/grub/powerpc/libgcc.h and `__bswapsi2'
in the sparc64 header.
But something has now changed that this isn't enough anymore, at least
in Debian.

We used gcc 4.3.3 at the time Jordi noticed this and now switched to
gcc-4.4.1.

And David we still have this sparc bug open, which I forwared to
grub-devel:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538030


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer