Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC

[Marco Gerards]

Peter Bruin <address@hidden> writes:

> How is the state of things on a multiboot specification for the
> PowerPC and other architectures?  I saw there is a file
> powerpc/ieee1275/multiboot.h in the GRUB 2 CVS source, but that's just
> a copy of the i386 version.  If anybody has thoughts on it, I'd like
> to hear them, otherwise I'm interested in trying something myself. 

It is on my todo.  And not just for the PPC, but something more
generic.  It needs some discussion of course.

> (I would like to use GRUB 2 with multiboot for the PowerPC port of
> the Hurd using L4; I have worked on the Mach version before, but
> it's unlikely that that version will be ported to newer PowerPC
> machines.)

AFAIK hurd-l4 already works on the PPC.  Just have a look at the
l4-hurd mailinglist.  There is a patch for PPC support, it just hasn't
been applied yet.

As for the bootloader, AFAIK they make one big binary of the kernel
and modules somehow.  Of course it is much nicer to use multiboot for
this.  The main reason I had for porting GRUB 2 to the mac was as a
preparation for the GNU/Hurd port.

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Marco