Re: Bug#927892: grub-ieee1275-bin: Please add bootinfo.txt for sparc and sparc64
On 4/28/19 11:13 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> I'm not sure this is actually required. debian-installer does actually have a low-mem
>> installation mode with which I could the system even on 64 MiB.
>
> Oh I didn't know that! From memory when you first started the ports images the
> minimum memory required under qemu-system-sparc64 for the ISOs was 128M, then about
> 18 months ago it jumped to 256M and in the most recent it seems to be 512M.
I will re-test on my Amiga 1200 once time permits. I also have two Pegasus II here
which also could be useful for that test.
>>> One other slight annoyance is that when the grub menu loads it seems to hammer the
>>> CPU for the first 60s or so which makes selection almost impossible. I'll see if I
>>> can find some time to look at this later.
>>
>> I have not seen this on real hardware. Worked just fine.
>
> My guess is that this is related to the way in which the keyboard/screen are being
> polled trigging something in the emulation, so I see this as being a
> qemu-system-sparc64 issue and not something to block the GRUB work.
Okay, good to know.
>>> I remember there being issues translating OF
>>> pathnames for the OS, but was there progress using grub for HD installation and also
>>> the installation media?
>> The pathname translation issue was for grub-installer, i.e. the part where the installer
>> installs GRUB to the target hard disk.
>
> (goes and looks)
>
> Wow there's a huge backlog of grub-related messages there :/ Do you have a link to
> the latest summary update? I can start poking at the outstanding tasks as time allows.
The main issue we have is still the bug in ofpathname. We haven't really agreed on
which utility to use. Currently we're ripping ofpath out of Yaboot which works
fine on PowerMacs.
Adrian
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