Bug#610490: grub-ieee1275: runs out of memory on UltraSPARC 10

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Package: grub-ieee1275
Version: 2.02-2
Followup-For: Bug #610490
User: debian-sparc at lists.debian.org
Usertags: sparc sparc64

Hi Axel!

grub2 upstream has received many fixes and enhancements from Oracle
engineers for SPARC such that your issue has most likely been resolved
already.

However, since Debian currently doesn't have a sparc (32-bit) port
anymore, you would have to reinstall your UltraSPARC 10 with
the sparc64 port which can be found in [1].

The grub2 package for sparc64 is currently an unofficial build as
not all necessary patches have been merged by upstream yet, but
we are making good progress on that matter.

A backported patch with all the SPARC-specific fixes can be found
in [2], but so far, Debian's grub2 maintainers have unfortunately
not included my patch yet :(. On top of the SPARC patches, we also
need to build grub2 with TARGET_CCASFLAGS := -fno-PIE on sparc
and sparc64 [3].

Adrian

> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854568
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891733

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