On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:26:44AM -0600, Noah yan wrote: > On 2/15/06, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > 1. Have all of the GCC 3.4.3 patches been done in consistency to the > > Solaris x86 Engineering requirements? I remember three fixes were needed for > > their build of GCC 3.4.3. > > > > 2. SmartFirmware update? I figured SmartFirmware could get us rolling with > > the proper GRUB2 as well, yet something fell off the truck in where things > > are with GRUB2 development (are we done yet, or awaiting GRUB developer > > input?) > > > > 3. Tundra and Marvell support? > > > > I'd hope Efika and ODW would have things in place with SmartFirmware so > > that the weight of the work in porting the Solaris kernel and GRUB2 patches. > > We can at least prototype development efforts on other platforms and test > > out the work on the Genesi PowerPC products. There is a lot of nice info > > from SmartFirmware which should make things easier for other things down the > > road. > > > Just update my progress concerning booting since it may be related to the > discussion. I am able to build the ufsboot and inetboot (basically nfsboot) > elf binary and just this morning, a bug in the psm/promif interface was > found and fixed and now the inetboot.elf binary can be loaded by ofw and > enter into bootstrap. it print some debug info on the black screen and > finally trapped, which I need further debugging. the code in psm and stand > are portable and hopefully in another couple of week, a nfs bootstrap will > be setup. If that, I find no reason to use grub since ofw and solaris have > all we need and they are much more stable. > > The only downloadside of this is that I tested this on a power mac g4 and I > am waiting for my approved EFIKA board to test it. I also need some time to > clean it out and check in repository. But if you would like first test this > in an ODW, please let me know.
Can you put those somewhere for me to download and test ? Friendly, Sven Luther
