Marco Gerards wrote:
> As GRUB 2 is ported to the ultra sparc64 it might be wise for us (GRUB
> and solaris developers) to talk about multiboot. Of course other
> parties might be interested as well (the Hurd uses multiboot, for
> example).
>
> Anyway, what is important for you is that we are thinking about a
> portable multiboot and that there is also a sparc port in the making.
Speaking of which, after refreshing my forth skills, I've started work
on the sparc bootloader. I have it reading data from disk into mem, but
I'm not sure if I want to share it quite yet. Before sharing it I'd
like to:
- have it verify that the file at the configured sector(s) is an ELF file
- follow through and make sure it properly boots an ELF image (right now
it only gets it into memory)
- clean up the code a bunch
I'll hand it over once I get those done. After that, the features I'd
like to work on are:
- support of a sector-sized lookup table indicating the layout of the
grub image on disk, allowing for more flexible configuration
- support of a sector-sized lookup table indicating additional forth
bytecode, providing for extensibility just in case.
- verify that the code works on PPC, and if not, try to make it work so
that there's a unified bootblock [not sure if this is reasonable as I'm
not as familiar with how PPC OF boots... how similiar is it to Sparc?]
- same for sparc32
BG
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