Re: patches for other archs...

[Marco Gerards]

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Hi,

> I'm in the finishing stages of a port of grub (stock 0.93) to the Amd
> Elan SC400. I read in the docs that there was a general wish/ feeling
> that grub should be ported to new archs, so I figured this could be
> one. The gist of the port is in the asm.S file, implementing Elan
> specifics for the various bios calls etc.
> 
> What's the policy for accepting patches to grub? I'm currently keeping
> the mods in the asm.S file, but I be happy to split 'em out into
> different arch-specific files, if someone can provide guidance and
> infrastructure. Btw, where is development issues discussed? This list
> seems rather quiet wrt development issues...

If you want to port GRUB to other architectures, please have a look at
PUPA:

http://www.nongnu.org/pupa/

I'm not sure if the port you were talking about was a port to another
pc (like IA64) or to a complete other architecture.  In the case of
IA64 support or something alike I am not sure what you will have to
do (I'm no GRUB hacker).

--
Marco