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Re: [PATCH 00/15] Add missing SPARC support
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Daniel Kiper |
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Re: [PATCH 00/15] Add missing SPARC support |
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Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:24:13 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 08:52:11AM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> 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:
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> > * 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.
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> I will take a look at it in week or two.
It looks that I will do that in August. Currently I am
working on other important stuff and I wish to release
it before my vacation. Sorry for delay.
Daniel