stdint.h & non-GNU portability

2005-10-23 Thread Bart Grantham
I'm now at the point where I need to build grub to start integrating the OF work I've been doing, but I can't get the most recent CVS to make. I am using OpenBSD 3.5 on an Ultra5, and it needs stdint.h, which is not installed on my system. My understanding is that stdint.h is part of libc6 an

Re: Sparc bootblock [Was: SFS breaks PPC build ]

2005-10-17 Thread Bart Grantham
Vincent Pelletier wrote: Bart Grantham wrote: - have it verify that the file at the configured sector(s) is an ELF file Quite easy if we stick to the header signature. Well, I was referring to the ELF magic number rather than the multiboot magic number. I'll probably check the

Sparc bootblock [Was: SFS breaks PPC build ]

2005-10-17 Thread Bart Grantham
Marco Gerards wrote: > As GRUB 2 is ported to the ultra sparc64 it might be wise for us (GRUB > and solaris developers) to talk about multiboot. Of course other > parties might be interested as well (the Hurd uses multiboot, for > example). > > Anyway, what is important for you is that we are th

Re: GRUB2 Sparc

2005-09-26 Thread Bart Grantham
Marco Gerards wrote: Specifically, how are you handling different filesystem structures in the boot sector? On the PC the bootblock (512 bytes) load the GRUB kernel. This is a binary image with a maximum size of 32KB (IIRC). This is loaded from a fixed location and no filesystem specific cod

Re: GRUB2 Sparc

2005-09-25 Thread Bart Grantham
Marco Gerards wrote: Bart Grantham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Didn't want to pollute the list with my dumb questions, so this is addressed only to you. :) You can send anything related to GRUB2 to grub-devel, don't worry about that. The advantage of a mailinglist is t

Re: GRUB2 Sparc

2005-09-23 Thread Bart Grantham
Vincent Pelletier wrote: Current status (on CVS) : Grub 2 boots to rescue mode, ls is buggy. Only tested in netboot environment (my U10 can boot grubof straightforward, it's an ELF64 file). Current status (on my disk) : Grub 2 has module support, ls is still buggy, I tested some modules and the

GRUB2 Sparc

2005-09-10 Thread Bart Grantham
I am interested in the development of the Sparc port of GRUB2 and was wondering who I could contact about doing some testing, etc. Would the maintainer please contact me so I could find out current status, if there are any ways that I could help out, etc. Thank you, Bart __