Quoting "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > So, if you know any patches I should take a look, please remind me. What I > can > recall are: > > - IA-64 port. I think I can find it myself.
I plan to work again on the ia64 port soon. There are three different parts/issues: * ia64 specific files: no real issues, the copyright assignment process is completed. * build issue: the old patch uses objdump+tricks to convert from ELF to PE/COFF (EFI object format). A small part of the trick is based on an HP start.S which is not assigned to FSF. During work on EFI, I have written a standalone ELF to PE/COFF converted. I still have to mark it work within the grub framework. Not a lot of work but it requires a few hours. * modules: Dynamically loading modules requires handling relocation, which is a nightmare on ia64. On the other side, because it's ia64 and EFI this feature is certainly not a must have (this should be discussed more lengthly). This is currently working by prelinking required modules. I think the pre-link method is a good idea (it simplifies porting work), is not target dependent but patches common files. This is the current status. I am very interested in having an ia64 port of grub (almost required for Xen). Tristan. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
