On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:56:53AM -0700, Eric Snowberg wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2019, at 3:52 AM, Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 05:34:01PM -0800, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> Add BIOS Boot Partition support for sparc64 platforms. This will work a > >> little different than x86. With GPT, both the OBP "load" and "boot" > >> commands > >> are partition aware and neither command can see the partition table. > >> Therefore > >> the entire boot-loader is stored within the BIOS Boot Partition and nothing > >> is stored within the bootstrap code area of MBR. > >> > >> To use it, the end user will issue the boot command with the path pointing > >> to > >> the BIOS Boot Partition. > >> > >> For example with the disk below: > >> > >> Model: Unknown (unknown) > >> Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 1600GB > >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > >> Partition Table: gpt > >> > >> Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > >> 1 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB ext3 > >> 2 1075MB 1076MB 1049kB bios_grub > >> 3 1076MB 1600GB 1599GB lvm > >> > >> To boot grub2 from OBP, you would use: > >> > >> boot /pci@302/pci@1/pci@0/pci@13/nvme@0/disk@1:b > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowb...@oracle.com> > > > > Have you tested this patch on the other platforms? > > If yes then I am OK with the patch. > > It has been tested on x86 and SPARC. It is my understanding that x86 > and SPARC are the only two platforms that can use this file. If that > is not correct, let me know.
Great! So, Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> Again, thank you for doing the SPARC work! Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
