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

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:46:26PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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 :(.

Well, we had included it in git, we just hadn't uploaded it yet.  I've
done that now (2.02+dfsg1-2).

> On top of the SPARC patches, we also need to build grub2 with
> TARGET_CCASFLAGS := -fno-PIE on sparc and sparc64 [3].

That's in 2.02+dfsg1-2 as well.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]