Hi, Adding Ard, Atish, Fu, Heinrich, Leif and Nikita...
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 05:48:39PM +0800, Xiaotian Wu wrote: > Hi Daniel. > > Thank you for your release plan. > > I would like to ask, can GRUB-2.12 add a new LoongArch architecture support? Sure, I will start reviewing them in the following weeks... > LoongArch is a RISC instruction set from China. Currently, Linux-5.19 adds > LoongArch CPU support and will support complete EFIStub in version 5.20. > > On GRUB, including 2 patch sets: > > 1. Add the basic support of LoongArch so that GRUB can run on the LoongArch > machine. See https://github.com/loongarch64/grub/tree/dev/patchwork/base > > 2. Add the loader for kernel, but it depends on a series of patch of > Loadfile2. See https://github.com/loongarch64/grub/tree/dev/patchwork/efi Oh, LoadFile2, I think it would be nice if somebody revives this patch series [1], [2]. I sent my comments a few months ago and nothing happened. Nikita or anybody else, could you take my comments into account and post v4? > These patchs are already available, and tested on CLFS and Archlinux for > LoongArch. > > If we plan to support LoongArch in GRUB-2.12, I will update these patchs and > release the 4th version of the patch for review. If you could rebase them on latest master that would be perfect. Daniel [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-10/msg00209.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-11/msg00084.html _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
