James C. McPherson wrote:
> Jan Friedel wrote:
>>      Below described approach seems to be related only to x86/GRUB
>>      systems. Do we have some sort of support for SPARC machines
>>      (already there / planned)?
> 
> Hi Jan,
> you're right, the utilities as they currently exist are specificly
> for x86/x64 systems. I had not worried about SPARC support since
> I've not yet come across any request from an IHV/ISV to provide this
> sort of facility.
> 
> I am quite happy to work on it for a followup phase, especially
> since we've now got GRUB for SPARC.

ahem... of course I meant "now we've got Newboot for SPARC"
which has a ramdisk and boot_archive.

:-)

James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp       http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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