Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Daniel and Eric! On 09/29/2017 07:06 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> How about starting where things left off with the two patches above? > > I am OK with that. I will take a look at it next week. I cannot stress enough how much we appreciate your efforts in Debian, I am so much looking forward to

Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 09:02:51AM -0600, Eric Snowberg wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [

Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to >> improve SPARC support in GRUB. Unfortunately, most of the patc

Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-28 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi Adrian, On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to > improve SPARC support in GRUB. Unfortunately, most of the patches have > not been merged as of today, so that users on SPARC are

State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to improve SPARC support in GRUB. Unfortunately, most of the patches have not been merged as of today, so that users on SPARC are still stuck on SILO which is old and effectively unmaintained and lacks many of the convenience