[coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

[li guang]

在 2013-04-26五的 22:08 +0200，Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko写
道：
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> >> do we have plan to add loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH support?
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> 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.

I'm not so familiar with GRUB code, I'll take a look at fwstart.S
to find some helpful info, 
Thanks!

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> > There is no plan that I know of.
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> >> It seems no person from loongson contribute to this,
> >> and can I try to make some efforts on this topic?
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> > I guess people contributing stuff are always welcome. Though I have no
> > experience with loongson and MIPS, so I cannot comment how feasible this
> > is.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Paul
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> > ¹ Is that your first name?
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> > PS: You should probably subscribe to the coreboot list, so your message
> > are not delivered with a delay.
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