On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:38:34PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/16/19 9:27 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> >> @Eric: Does GRUB 2.04~rc1 work fine for you on sparc64?
> > 
> > I boot with an uncompressed kernel and do not see a problem. If I try with 
> > a compressed kernel I do see the error you have above.  But this is a known 
> > platform limitation: 
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Platform-limitations
> 
> That would indeed explain the problem. However, Debian's GRUB version
> does support compressed kernels on sparc64. I wonder whether we have
> a local modification that makes this possible.

I'm not aware of anything specific; I think if it works it'll be a
matter of divergence between patch sets rather than an explicit patch to
make it work, if you see what I mean.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]

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