vintage hardware

Happy New Year!

Last year was just really short.
Embedded Linux hacking still makes fun.
At the moment OpenADK gets more support for vintage hardware, because a lot of Linux distributions drop their support for it, faster, newer, better is the motto in the IT world.
I integrate support for SGI hardware mostly, I own two SGI O2 and two SGI indy for testing.
Today I am working on my old SGI indy'S, which both startup and serial console is working.
The boot loader is normally ArcBoot on these devices,
but I would rather like to run GRUB on it, because GRUB is already included in OpenADK.
On SGI O2 GRUB doesn't work right now, so I will check SGI Indy next. I reported the issue to the GRUB development mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-01/msg00001.html
May be the solution is trivial.

In the area of uClibc-ng I have following plans:
- integration of AARCH64 support from GNU libc
- integration of NTPL/TLS for NDS32 (prepared by Andes Technology)
- SH2 Binfmt FLAT support fix, report to elf2flt mailing list sent
- SH2 FDPIC support merge from old uClibc branch
- and as always, the nios2 ld.so support

have fun
Waldemar