Switching list for GRUB on SPARC. On 1/6/19 9:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> I think I will work on GRUB on SPARC next to address the build issues there. > > Before re-enabling COFF for GRUB, we could look into GRUB as ELF on sparc64, > because looking at OpenBSD, their second stage bootloader is actually an ELF > binary: > > ``` > root@nfs:/srv/nfs/openbsd/6.3/sparc64# file ofwboot.net > ofwboot.net: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, relaxed memory ordering, > version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped > > root@nfs:/srv/nfs/openbsd/6.3/sparc64# file bsd.mp > bsd.mp: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, total store ordering, version 1 > (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped > ``` > > ...so the sparc64 firmware seems to also support ELF binaries. And according > to [6] this seems to work for a lot of systems. If an ELF version of GRUB can > be provided by someone, I have a lot of sparc64 gear to test on - though not > as many as OpenBSD supports ;-).
I do actually. I have built a version of GRUB for sparc64 with the COFF linker options stripped off. Feel free to try the packages from [1]. If we actually don't ned COFF even on older SPARC boxes, that would be great. Adrian > [1] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/grub-sparc-elf/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
