Hello!
I'm going to send the remaining patches for PowerPC to the list. I
don't want to spend more time on it, and I don't want to sit on those
patches. If any of them are good, I'll apply then. If not, somebody
could fix them later. I don't want to spend more time on them.
I added completely untested CHRP support to grub-mkrescue and updated
the copyright. I don't want to add PREP support blindly, without
hardware to test it on. Besides, PREP would probably need serial
console.
Open Hack'Ware used as the firmware by QEMU on PowerPC lacks
/memory/available. I don't know what Linux does to find the memory,
but it fails to boot anyway when loaded from GRUB under qemu. I think
either /memory/available should be implemented in Open Hack'Ware or
qemu should switch to another Openfirmware implementation.
Anyway, I made a patch that allocates memory between 3Mb and 4Mb.
That's what yaboot would do. Actually, yaboot would scan for a 1Mb
chunk from 3Mb to 16Mb, but it's an overkill for a simple hack.
Finally, I made a patch that restores a gap between the end of the
core code and the beginning of the modules in the image created by
grub-mkimage. I realize that making the resulting image a valid ELF
file would likely achieve the same goal, but I don't have time for that.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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