grub2 with SPARC support available for testing

Eric Snowberg eric.snowberg at oracle.com
Thu Feb 9 18:44:35 UTC 2017


> On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> On 01/23/2017 12:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I just uploaded grub2_2.02~beta3-3+sparc64 to Debian "unreleased" which
>> contains an additional set of 15 patches by Eric Snowberg (CC'ed) which
>> improve SPARC in grub2 and add support for modern SPARC hardware through
>> the SPARC T7.
> 
> I uploaded grub2_2.02~beta3-4+sparc64.1 to "unreleased" today which is
> based on Eric's latest sparc-next-v2 branch [1]. This new version fixes
> the build problems on non-sparc* targets. I'm not sure if it addresses
> other issues, but Eric can maybe comment on this.

I put together a wiki to help document the installation process:

https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki


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