[indiana-discuss] Project Indiana is an initiative to create an OpenSolaris binary distro ...

[Martin Bochnig]

Brandorr wrote:
>> I'm not very up-to-date in terms of ZFS.
>> What is missing? Is somebody  already working on the IEEE1275 Forth code
>> to implement something like "zfsboot" ?
>> As Ian uses to underline, ZFS is one of OpenSolaris' key strengths. It
>> should be bootable on all platforms, as there should exist an option
>> during (whatever) install method permitting to avoid ufs completely.
>>     
>
> Basically making it work without making any significant changes to
> OBP. As I understand this is dependent on the Sparc GRUB project
> (unified boot process).
>
> -Brian
>   
Aha, thanks.
(I didn't check Alan's link yet, but I soon will).
Grub2?
The last time I had looked into its src (December 2005) the (then 
public) SPARC code had only been a meaningless stumble. And the question 
back then had been, how much a port of Grub2 to SPARC would actually 
help in getting new boot code to work, as it primarily depends on how 
much/less the implementation of Grub code depends on the underlying 
IEEE1275 firmware. Supporting a new fstype may be doable rather 
"easily". But adding boot support for additional hardware bus types 
might be more difficult, if not impossible, except the underlying OBP 
had been ported first (with Grub2 basically simply building on what OBP 
already can).


Martin