On 1/5/06, Shudong Zhou <szhou at billybob.sfbay.sun.com> wrote:
> Cyril,
>
> Jan is going to head the effort on GRUB2 for sparc. We don't have
> any specific dates. We don't anyone working on GRUB2 at the moment,
> but will have to when we start the GRUB/sparc effort.
>
> Our goal is to make Solaris bootable via the standard release of
> GRUB (or any other multiboot compliant loader). From then on,
> we will work with GRUB community to make sure GRUB will continue
> to satisfy Solaris needs.
Excellent, very glad to hear that. Looking forward for that Monday
conf call.
Regards,
Cyril
>
> Shudong
>
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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Regards,
Cyril
