On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 09:02:51AM -0600, Eric Snowberg wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl> 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 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
