在 2013-04-29一的 03:58 +0200，Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko写 道：
On 29.04.2013 03:18, li guang wrote:
在 2013-04-26五的 22:08 +0200，Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko写 道：
do we have plan to add loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH support?
Loongson platforms are very different from any x86 boards. I believe that coreboot in this case would get more in the way than help. I ported GRUB to be firmware on Yeloong 2F and Fuloong 2F. Everything coreboot does on x86 including video init holds under 1000 lines of assembly code for yeeloong. See fwstart.S in GRUB tree. What is your goal? Can we perhaps adapt GRUB to your needs?
First step is to boot a platform based on loongson 2E, so I have to at least port CPU start up code, bonito and vt82c686(seems done in coreboot) init code.
But what is the bigger picture?
Sorry, No picture for me, I just start to consider this few days ago.
Don't get me wrong, coreboot is great for x86 but for loongson its init framework is somewhat overkill and initing naively is more appropriate. What do you think to use as payload? You need something as GRUB for it since the chip is too small to hold a kernel anyway.
Yes, I'm querying coreboot for the similar consideration. Is payload indispensable? can we directly load kernel image?
You can already load GRUB from pmon on fuloong 2E so you can get an idea. I myself don't have a 2E system so as-firmware port was never done.