Re: A ready to run GRUB2 boot loader for the Genesi ODW ?

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 16:34, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > Looks helpful. :) Is there a particular reason you chose not to use the
> > GRUB wiki? 
> 
> I didn't know it existed.

Oh, well, yes: http://grub.enbug.org . It's linked to from the main GRUB web 
pages in a few places.

> > That reminds me, how are you booting OpenSolaris using GRUB2 on PPC? With
> > the "linux" loader?
> 
> No .. booting OpenSolaris with GRUB2.  But that stage is being worked on.

I'm guessing you mean you're booting OpenSolaris with yaboot? If that's the 
case, the GRUB "linux" loader has a good chance of working as well.

> > > I put this page together such that people working on the PowerPC 
> > > port can focus on more interesting things like the hardware address
> > > translation and the memory management layer.
> >
> > I'm actually not sure what you mean by "hardware address translation and
> > the memory management layer"... could you elaborate?
>
> Actually .. not really.  :-(

Ohhh, I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about the *GRUB* PowerPC people 
(this being a GRUB list and all :). But I see now you were talking about 
Solaris PowerPC people. That makes much more sense. :)

> > If that does work, you could implement a patch that detects you're running 
on
> > CodeGen firmware (the original author) and sets a quirk/feature bit, then
> > output a different message in the suspend command. I believe we already
> > detect CodeGen firmware to work around a bug I found on the briQ, so you
> > would have an example to work from...
> 
> Let me look into that also.

Cool. FYI: you are also on the hook to fix the ASCII art menu border drawing 
on PPC. I have not forgotten you said you were working on that... :)

-Hollis