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Re: making grub portable
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: making grub portable |
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Sat, 25 Jan 2003 02:02:43 +0900 |
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At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:35:30 +1100,
Andrew Clausen wrote:
> I'm entertaining the idea of porting grub to the Origin 200, which is
> a 64 bit mips-based machine. Radically different to x86 :)
That's interesting.
> Anyway, how hard would it be to make grub portable?
> I guess most of stage{1,1.5} would need to be rewritten for
> each platform, and a small amount of stage2?
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> Got any closet Grand Plans?
Current code cannot be portable. So I'm now working on a research
project called PUPA <http://www.nongnu.org/pupa/>. Unfortunately,
however, PUPA is far from useful at the moment, but I'm going to
integrate the result with GRUB really soon, and it will be called
"GRUB 2".
I can't say when PUPA (or GRUB 2) will become mature or stable, but I
think PUPA is already better than GRUB 0.9x, if you need portable
code.
Thanks,
Okuji