Re: grub

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Vincent Pelletier wrote:

> I added support for SUN disklabel in grub2 (still in development) and I
> have been working on making it boot on my usparc IIi, but with little
> success.
> All I've been able to was getting the OF vector from registers, but I
> haven't been able to call any function that need args or return value,
> so all I was able to was to call "exit", which falls back to the OF
> prompt (everyone : wow, useful).
> I haven't worked on it for a few months because I wasn't able to find a
> doc that was correct & complete : the few I found were either explaining
> how to use OF prompt, or telling me the function vector was in a
> register that contained 0 on my box...
>
> If anyone knows how to make that work, with as few ASM as possible, I
> would be happy to again put my hands inside that code.
>
> Vincent Pelletier

Hi Vincent,

I don't have any direct advice for you, but I know that Jeff Bailey 
(jbailey@d.o) is working on sparc support for grub2 as a summer project.
You might want to coordinate with him, if you are interested in this.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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