Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread Daniel Kiper 
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 09:02:51AM -0600, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> > On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper  wrote:
> > Hi Adrian,
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to
> >> improve SPARC support in GRUB. Unfortunately, most of the patches have
> >> not been merged as of today, so that users on SPARC are still stuck on
> >> SILO which is old and effectively unmaintained and lacks many of the
> >> convenience features of GRUB.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me what is currently preventing the patches from being
> >> merged? Eric is maintaining an external git repository [2] where he
> >> keeps rebasing the patches, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem to
> >> get the patches merged.
> >>
> >> We have already tested the patches in Debian in unofficial builds of
> >> the GRUB package and GRUB works as expected on modern SPARC machines.
> >>
> >> Would be great if we could finally get rid of SILO in Debian.
> >
> > If you are OK with rebasing and reposting relevant patches then
> > I am OK with reviewing them. Though please do not assume that I/we
> > will apply all/some of them at the first stab. Anyway, please do
> > not forget to CC me.
> >
>
> I started reposting a few of these patches after 2.02 was released
> and I'm awaiting a response:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-05/msg00045.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-06/msg00019.html

Did you CC me on them? I have a feeling that no. Could you do that
in the future? Otherwise it is pretty good chance that I can miss
some stuff like above.

> How about starting where things left off with the two patches above?

I am OK with that. I will take a look at it next week.

Have a nice weekend,

Daniel

Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Hi Daniel and Eric!

On 09/29/2017 07:06 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> How about starting where things left off with the two patches above?
> 
> I am OK with that. I will take a look at it next week.

I cannot stress enough how much we appreciate your efforts in Debian, I
am so much looking forward to replacing SILO \o/.

> Have a nice weekend,

Have a nice weekend :-).

Adrian

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Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread Eric Snowberg 

> On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper  wrote:
> 
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to
>> improve SPARC support in GRUB. Unfortunately, most of the patches have
>> not been merged as of today, so that users on SPARC are still stuck on
>> SILO which is old and effectively unmaintained and lacks many of the
>> convenience features of GRUB.
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me what is currently preventing the patches from being
>> merged? Eric is maintaining an external git repository [2] where he
>> keeps rebasing the patches, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem to
>> get the patches merged.
>> 
>> We have already tested the patches in Debian in unofficial builds of
>> the GRUB package and GRUB works as expected on modern SPARC machines.
>> 
>> Would be great if we could finally get rid of SILO in Debian.
> 
> If you are OK with rebasing and reposting relevant patches then
> I am OK with reviewing them. Though please do not assume that I/we
> will apply all/some of them at the first stab. Anyway, please do
> not forget to CC me.
> 

I started reposting a few of these patches after 2.02 was released and I'm 
awaiting a response:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-05/msg00045.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-06/msg00019.html

How about starting where things left off with the two patches above?

Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-28 Thread Daniel Kiper 
Hi Adrian,

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to
> improve SPARC support in GRUB. Unfortunately, most of the patches have
> not been merged as of today, so that users on SPARC are still stuck on
> SILO which is old and effectively unmaintained and lacks many of the
> convenience features of GRUB.
>
> Can anyone tell me what is currently preventing the patches from being
> merged? Eric is maintaining an external git repository [2] where he
> keeps rebasing the patches, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem to
> get the patches merged.
>
> We have already tested the patches in Debian in unofficial builds of
> the GRUB package and GRUB works as expected on modern SPARC machines.
>
> Would be great if we could finally get rid of SILO in Debian.

If you are OK with rebasing and reposting relevant patches then
I am OK with reviewing them. Though please do not assume that I/we
will apply all/some of them at the first stab. Anyway, please do
not forget to CC me.

Thanks,

Daniel

State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Hi!

Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to
improve SPARC support in GRUB. Unfortunately, most of the patches have
not been merged as of today, so that users on SPARC are still stuck on
SILO which is old and effectively unmaintained and lacks many of the
convenience features of GRUB.

Can anyone tell me what is currently preventing the patches from being
merged? Eric is maintaining an external git repository [2] where he
keeps rebasing the patches, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem to
get the patches merged.

We have already tested the patches in Debian in unofficial builds of
the GRUB package and GRUB works as expected on modern SPARC machines.

Would be great if we could finally get rid of SILO in Debian.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-06/msg00028.html
> [2] https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc

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