Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Matt Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I learned today that GRUB 2 aims to be cross platform and already
> supports in some form PPC.
>
> Is there any interest in supporting the DEC Alpha (SRM) platform?
>
>   
Is there still any interest in this? I have a possibility of buying
cheaply an Alpha Workstation. If I do I can lend a hand in porting but I
don't want to do the whole porting myself. (nor I see any point if
nobody is interested in it)
> According to the Current Status [*] page, BSD partition maps are
> already supported, so maybe the only thing to be done is the
> SRM-specific code?
>
> Alpha users currently use the long unmaintained aboot bootloader.
> Possibly code could be reused from aboot.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Turner
>
> [*] http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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