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Re: [PATCH 00/15] Add missing SPARC support


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] Add missing SPARC support
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 08:52:11 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 02:43:13PM -0700, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> First set of patches to add sun4v SPARC support to grub.
>
> Major additions include:
>
> * Properly scan for both SAS and SCSI disks
> * Increasing boot performance
> * GPT support
> * NVMe support
> * Various bug fixes
>
> Before this patch, there isn???t a single SAS HBA that was enumerated 
> correctly
> on SPARC. I went back 10 years and believe I have added every HBA with OF
> support.
>
> Without these patches, on larger systems, it took 15+ minutes to get
> to the grub menu.  Now it takes about a second.
>
> This code has been tested on T1, T2, T4, T5, and T7 hardware.

I will take a look at it in week or two.

Next time please CC me directly too.

Daniel



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