В Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:56:02 -0300 Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> пишет:
> From: Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmor...@br.ibm.com> > > Hi, > > At the beginning of the year we provide a patchset that enabled GRUB for > little-endian PowerPC. Our approach at the time was to build GRUB itself and > its tools in 64-bit little-endian. One of the reasons of build in 64-bit is > to avoid 32-bit dependencies in the distro and build a system entirely 64-bit. > > This patchset was not welcomed at the time because it would bring a > high-maintainance-cost, without real gain since it could just be > cross-compiled. > > After that, Brent Baude, Vladmir (phcoder) and I started to work in a solution > that would cross-compile but without 32-bit dependencies. This patchset is the > result of this new approach. It's based on the work of Brent Baude, Vladimir > (phcoder), and Tomohiro. > > It can be devided in two parts: > > 1) Skip libgcc dependency just for ppc64el (patch 1 and 2); This is now default for all platforms > 2) Check elf endianess and byteswap if necessary (patch 3); > That's still pending. > The result is GRUB itself in 32-bit BE and its tools in 64-bit LE. This > solution > satisfies the needs of the distros. I tested it in three different distros, in > both endianess and it's fine. > > If thoses patches were accepted we will have an official solution. Nowadays, > distros are taking diffrent approachs. Some of then are using the original > solutions and others are using cross-compiler. > Could you resend missing bits rebased to current head? _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
