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 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
