Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote: > It would probably be a better solution to introduce an Octeon-like BOOT > kernel on loongson and use it as the bootloader on all loongson > platforms, if only because of the dire bugs in their ext2fs > implementation. > > Doing this would make the Gdium-specific boot shenanigans much, much > simpler.
It isn't terribly difficult now, since that bootloader is now two architectures. There is a glitch, on powerpc64, where the root filesystem becomes dirty, or remains dirty. visa might be changing it to use the MI boot ffs code, rather than mount and chroot, which may fix that. Besides that issue, that the mechanism has become pretty good. I'm not going to do this work for loongson, and I doubt anyone exists to do it. These machines are now the slowest architecture to build [1], and architecturally don't provide any lessons in bug discovery, with the exception of byte order, the octeon is filling that that role now. [1] slower than landisk.
