Tom Riddle <tom.riddle at sun.com> wrote:
> An update after discussions with the newboot team. SPARC platforms and
> PPC/ODW are fairly similar with the OBP/OF piece in place. The newboot move
> to SPARC is on the roadmap, but they have no immediate plans to implement.
> This leaves with 2 choices.
>
> The quickest path with the least amount of code change would be leveraging
> ufsboot as a binary to copy in krtld/unix/genunix and go. So use OF directly
> or GRUB2 to load a PPC based ufsboot. A more elegant way would be to
> integrate ufsboot/netboot into GRUB2. Some of the 2.5.1 code may be useful
> here but we have to verify. But this is not where newboot is going longterm.
>
What problem do you see?
I thought that we already have a ufs implementation for GRUB. What problem
is present with GRUB2?
I would expect to use something very close to the multiboot source for Solaris
x86
in case that the interface to GRUB2 did not change.
We also have an anhanced krtld that includes ufs support for x86 and for the
rest we will use the same code for Sparc to interface to IEEE-1275 instead of
using ACPI.
J?rg
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