Re: [PATCH V2] sparc64: fix OF path names for sun4v systems

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 02/07/2018 06:39 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> Is there some reason this patch is being held up too?
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-05/msg00045.html
> 
> This is where things last left off:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-10/msg00046.html
> 
> We really need minimal GPT support in there for many of the follow on patches 
> in my queue.

FWIW, we have received lots of positive feedback from Debian users on
sparc64 with Eric's patches applied to the Debian GRUB package:

> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2018/02/msg00015.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00027.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00050.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00053.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00074.html

Even machines reported as old as the Ultra10 are reported to
work fine.

I am mentioning this because I talked to Vladimir and Daniel
at FOSDEM and there was concern whether this patch series would
break GRUB on old SPARC machines.

Adrian

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