Shudong,
thanks for your update. Do you have any date planned for introduction
GRUB2/SPARC/any_other new feature in Solaris ? What is your
current goals ? Do you have team members participating on GRUB2
efforts.
Regards,
Cyril
On 1/5/06, Shudong Zhou <szhou at billybob.sfbay.sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have strong feeling that GRUB2 way worth being chosen.
> >
> > As a side note I want to add that Sun's road map (both short- and
> > long-term) WRT GRUB in Solaris is totally unclear. I never saw
> > that UFS support was submitted to GRUB. And the GRUB itself in Solaris
> > stopped at 0.95, while the GRUB itself went ahead to 0.97.
> > It would be very beneficial for [our] community if engineers from
> > NewBoot Team shared their road map and plans with the rest of us.
> >
> I am the tech lead of the NewBoot project and have put some thoughts
> in the roadmap. This is not an official position.
>
> The goal is to decouple the Solaris kernel from the boot loader.
> This allows Solaris kernel to evolve independently. One key requirement
> is a specification of the interface between the bootloader and the
> kernel. This gives us the option to switch to other loaders or support
> multiple boot loaders. For x86, GRUB was the clear choice with
> Multiboot Specification as the interface between loader and the
> kernel.
>
> I agree with choosing GRUB2 for Solaris on powerpc. It is our plan
> to use GRUB2 for sparc as well as move x86 to GRUB2. We are less
> likely to take the intermediate step to GRUB 0.97 (there is a large
> QA effort involved).
>
> Regarding the contributing ufs work back to GRUB, we are hung up
> on legal. The code is already available in OpenSolaris.
>
> Shudong
>
>
