Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Okay, so I have managed to build an image now, that's the good news: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-10.0-sparc64-grub-NETINST-1.iso The bad news is, it doesn't boot yet: {0} ok boot cdrom Boot device: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1 File and args: ERROR:

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
(Leave the bug tracker, I'll close the bug) On 4/24/19 10:43 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Is it possible to see the source for sparc64-ieee1275-cdcore anywhere? A > quick search > doesn't return anything obvious. The regular grub2 packaging source is on salsa, see:

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Closing as the bug report is obviously invalid as bootinfo.txt is not required on sparc and sparc64. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 24/04/2019 21:30, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 4/24/19 22:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 4/24/19 9:46 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >>> For reference the CHRP bootinfo.txt isn't a configuration file, but is >>> actually >>> parsed by CHRP-compliant open firmwares directly - SPARC

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/24/19 22:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/24/19 9:46 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> For reference the CHRP bootinfo.txt isn't a configuration file, but is >> actually >> parsed by CHRP-compliant open firmwares directly - SPARC firmwares, including >> OpenBIOS don't support them.

Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: grub2 Version: 2.02+dfsg1-17 Severity: normal User: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 Hello! I have started working on switching the bootloader for debian-installer from silo to grub-ieee1275 on sparc and sparc64. For that, I have looked at the corresponding code in

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/24/19 9:46 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > For reference the CHRP bootinfo.txt isn't a configuration file, but is > actually > parsed by CHRP-compliant open firmwares directly - SPARC firmwares, including > OpenBIOS don't support them. Can you explain why grub on SPARC is trying to > access >

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 24/04/2019 23:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Okay, so I have managed to build an image now, that's the good news: > >> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-10.0-sparc64-grub-NETINST-1.iso > > The bad news is, it doesn't boot yet: > > {0} ok boot cdrom > Boot device:

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 25/04/2019 05:18, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 24/04/2019 23:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Okay, so I have managed to build an image now, that's the good news: >> >>> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-10.0-sparc64-grub-NETINST-1.iso >> >> The bad news is, it doesn't boot

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/25/19 6:18 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > FWIW I think you're pretty close here: as you say, you just need to fix the > bits > which set up a sun partition label and inject the bootloader. So the bit you > need to > re-enable to get this to work should be this: > > add_mkisofs_opt

Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64

2019-04-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 4/25/19 7:23 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Oh wait, now I see it: SILO's isofs.b also includes a mini-ISO9660 driver to > enable > the PROM to read from the CDROM. So given that grub on SPARC64 is already > working for > a disk install then this aspect should already have been solved i.e.

Re: Hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} removal

2019-04-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15381 March 1977, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > It would be nice to have a bit more than 2 weeks to do all of that. Ok. How much? Is 6 or 8 weeks better? I don't think, given how long this is on the table already, it doesn't make much difference if its 2 or 8. Just something thats clear defined