Re: Any progress with grub-installer?
Switching list for GRUB on SPARC.
On 1/6/19 9:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> I think I will work on GRUB on SPARC next to address the build issues there.
>
> Before re-enabling COFF for GRUB, we could look into GRUB as ELF on sparc64, because looking at OpenBSD, their second stage bootloader is actually an ELF binary:
>
> ```
> root@nfs:/srv/nfs/openbsd/6.3/sparc64# file ofwboot.net
> ofwboot.net: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, relaxed memory ordering, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
>
> root@nfs:/srv/nfs/openbsd/6.3/sparc64# file bsd.mp
> bsd.mp: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, total store ordering, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
> ```
>
> ...so the sparc64 firmware seems to also support ELF binaries. And according to [6] this seems to work for a lot of systems. If an ELF version of GRUB can be provided by someone, I have a lot of sparc64 gear to test on - though not as many as OpenBSD supports ;-).
I do actually. I have built a version of GRUB for sparc64 with the COFF
linker options stripped off. Feel free to try the packages from [1].
If we actually don't ned COFF even on older SPARC boxes, that would be
great.
Adrian
> [1] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/grub-sparc-elf/
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