silo: Generic boot loader for Linux on SPARC Computers¹

SILO (SPARC Image LOader) is a first and second stage bootloader called by the openboot prom for loading linux or solaris. It can understand berkeley fast filesystem, ext2/ext3 and sun ufs, and re-reads the silo.conf at bootup. compared to LILO (the x86 hardware bootloader), you could select which kernel to boot based on a limited choice of cpu architectures within the sparc world, and you`ld only have to install SILO once.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://silo.auxio.org/

Author: Ben Collins <bcollins [at] debian [dot] org>
Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub [at] redhat [dot] com>
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 9277bfd

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).
Remark: Does not allow parallel builds.

CPU architectures: Does only support: sparc

Download: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/silo.git/snapshot/ silo-9277bfd.tar.gz

T2 source: debug.patch
T2 source: ext2-magic.patch
T2 source: hotfix-iso_fs-flex-array.patch
T2 source: large-kernel.patch.sparc
T2 source: ls-c-include-order.patch
T2 source: silo.cache
T2 source: silo.conf
T2 source: silo.desc
T2 source: stone_mod_silo.sh
T2 source: tilo-v8.patch
T2 source: v7.patch.sparc

Build time (on reference hardware): 5% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.29 MB, 25 files

Dependencies (build time detected): binutils coreutils diffutils elftoaout findutils gawk grep gzip linux-header make patch sed sysfiles tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).