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Re: How to chainload grub on different platforms?
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: How to chainload grub on different platforms? |
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Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:16:10 +0100 |
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On 24.02.2016 18:14, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> On x86 we can use multiboot (on in exceptional case chainload boot block).
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> On EFI we can use chainloader to launch EFI binary.
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> What can we do on PowerPC? SPARC? ARM? MIPS?
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> I think we really need some generic platform-independent interface to
> load another grub binary.
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Currently we have:
pc: multiboot
*-efi: chainloader
i386-multiboot: multiboot
*-coreboot: chainloader
*-xen: linux
mips-loongson: linux
arm-uboot: linux
Nothing:
*-ieee1275
mips(el)-arc
Nothing, flash-only targets:
i386-qemu
mips-qemu_mips
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