GRUB testers on SPARC needed

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I finally found time to test GRUB on my Netra T1. But then I saw this
message and am demotivated.

Please add a grub build with Erics patches to experimental.

kind regards
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> Hello!
> 
> On 02/19/2018 10:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> There's a new package version (2.02+dfsg1-1) available since a few
>> days ([1]).
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/g/grub2/grub2_2.02+dfsg1-1_changelog
>>
>>
>> Installing it **and** using the mentioned `grub-install` command to
>> install it on the `/boot` partition over the previous version
>> (2.02-2+sparc64.3) breaks booting with GRUB2:
> 
> Yes, this is something I don't have any control over. The grub2 package
> will
> break every time on sparc64 until GRUB 2.04 has been released with
> hopefully
> all of Eric's patches merged.
> 
> Alternatively, you can try to convince Debian's GRUB maintainers (CC'ed)
> that
> they will merge my patch from #854568 [1].
> 
> Additionally, you will have to add the following in debian/rules for
> sparc/sparc64:
> 
> ifneq (,$(filter sparc sparc64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU)))
> export TARGET_LDFLAGS := -no-pie
> endif
> 
>> @Adrian:
>> Could or will you provide a new package with Eric's patches included -
>> assuming those are missing in 2.02+dfsg1-1?
> Well, this will break over and over again, so I rather prefer getting the
> patch merged into the Debian package officially.
> 
> Adrian
> 
>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854568
> 

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