Bart Grantham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - It looks like the Sparc port piggybacks on the powerpc port a bit > for the open firmware bits. Is that correct, or am I missing > something? If so, I suppose a good goal would be to try to move any > OF-specific code into it's own module?
The OF code is already shared between both ports, so both ports are equal if you look at it that way. We could make a module out of the OF code some day, but that is not really important now. > - My (admittedly somewhat hazy) understanding of how an Ultrasparc > machine boots from disk (any IEEE1275 machine?) is that it reads the > first sector on the given partition as OF bytecode, which then loads > up a secondary bootloader or kernel. Please correct me if I'm wrong > on this. Is the GRUB2 project intended to provide a standard bytecode > sector for this as well, or will platform specific bootsector code > continue to be used? And if it's the latter, how does the team > envision the interface between the boot loader and GRUB2 working? > Will something like SILO load up GRUB2 like it currently does the > linux kernel and then GRUB2 takes over from there, leveraging OF for > keyboard, mouse, display drivers? I would prefer our own loader to do this. It would be silly if GRUB needs another bootloader I guess. :) -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
