Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > UFS support is not needed as long as we put GRUB into the Linux partition
> > ;-)
> > The Boot archive may use hsfs.
>
> You know what, I have a wild idea - how about ignoring UFS altogether
> and jumping right into bootable ZFS, when it becomes available later
> next year ? How does that sound ?
I would like to see UFS on PPC.
Why do you believe that UFS support would be such a big problem.
Remember that there is UFS support for the GRUB we use on x86.
> > If we like to see a shell prompt, we need to be ready with this....
> > For the time before, I have an unbuffered kernel printf that I needed to
> > write
> > in order to find the ATA/SCSI Bugs in Solaris 2.6 x86.
>
> I recall there is some undocumented non-buffering printf already.
> I used it once while debugging some weird hardware problem.
I did not find one, so I did write my own....
> > Marvel is partially located in Berlin. I had a discussion with Marvell
> > at CeBIT related to the port. It may need that we push them a bit together
> > with Sun ;-)
>
> Marvell is an Israel company, but it helped me not. They never returned
> my emails. Whatever, I know we'll solve it that way or another.
Maybe it is better to visit them in Berlin?
> > If we finally toss the rtld driver out of Solaris and replace it with
> > "rf" driver....
>
> No one stops us from tossing rtls and using rf, right ? There is no rtls
> for SPARC anyhow.
Things may depend on other people's interest on PPC Solaris....
I believe that we need to make sure that being OpenSource is worth a lot.
> > Keep in mind that we have no ATA driver source.
>
> Indeed. What about upcoming SATA framework ? Will it be useful for us ?
> Can someone from Sun comment on this ?
I am not sure. I was in hope that Sun would contact Bruce Adler to check the
state of the ata driver that most likely is not encumbered.
J?rg
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