Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread li guang
在 2013-04-26五的 11:10 -0700,David Hendricks写道: On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:13 PM, li guang lig.f...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 25.04.2013, 11:59 +0800 schrieb li guang: do we have plan to add loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH support?

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread li guang
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

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread ron minnich
not everyone wants or needs grub. So that's part of the point. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 29.04.2013 04:09, ron minnich wrote: not everyone wants or needs grub. So that's part of the point. Could we have a sane discussion about why it's not suitable for this or that scenario and what would need to be fixed? Not just quasi-fanatical I don't want it. signature.asc Description:

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread li guang
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

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: not everyone wants or needs grub. So that's part of the point. Could we have a sane discussion about why it's not suitable IMO it's a clusterfuck as far as usability is concerned for one. But this isn't the GRUB mailing list, so actually it's

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread Peter Stuge
li guang wrote: 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.

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Yes, I'm querying coreboot for the similar consideration. Is payload indispensable? can we directly load kernel image? Not in the tiny ROM available on this machine (512KiB). And 512K is absolute maximum you can put on it (parallel flash) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

2013-04-28 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: Could we have a sane discussion about why it's not suitable for this or that scenario and what would need to be fixed? Not just quasi-fanatical I don't want it. I guess I missed the part where not