On Tuesday 15 November 2005 16:34, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Looks helpful. :) Is there a particular reason you chose not to use the > > GRUB wiki? > > I didn't know it existed.
Oh, well, yes: http://grub.enbug.org . It's linked to from the main GRUB web pages in a few places. > > That reminds me, how are you booting OpenSolaris using GRUB2 on PPC? With > > the "linux" loader? > > No .. booting OpenSolaris with GRUB2. But that stage is being worked on. I'm guessing you mean you're booting OpenSolaris with yaboot? If that's the case, the GRUB "linux" loader has a good chance of working as well. > > > I put this page together such that people working on the PowerPC > > > port can focus on more interesting things like the hardware address > > > translation and the memory management layer. > > > > I'm actually not sure what you mean by "hardware address translation and > > the memory management layer"... could you elaborate? > > Actually .. not really. :-( Ohhh, I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about the *GRUB* PowerPC people (this being a GRUB list and all :). But I see now you were talking about Solaris PowerPC people. That makes much more sense. :) > > If that does work, you could implement a patch that detects you're running on > > CodeGen firmware (the original author) and sets a quirk/feature bit, then > > output a different message in the suspend command. I believe we already > > detect CodeGen firmware to work around a bug I found on the briQ, so you > > would have an example to work from... > > Let me look into that also. Cool. FYI: you are also on the hook to fix the ASCII art menu border drawing on PPC. I have not forgotten you said you were working on that... :) -Hollis _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
