On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 11:30:47AM -0500, Glenn Washburn wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:48:39 +0800 > Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaot...@loongson.cn> wrote: > > > Hi Daniel. > > > > Thank you for your release plan. > > > > I would like to ask, can GRUB-2.12 add a new LoongArch architecture support? > > > > 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 > > > > 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. > > I think it would be great to have LoongArch in GRUB. It should be a hard > requirement that support for the architecture be added for the make > check tests. This will require that QEMU have support for LoongArch. It > looks like the current release of QEMU does not have support for > LoongArch, but there is a patch series[1] which adds it. I presume that
What is the status of this patch series right now? If it is in or close by I would ask for at least minimal tests for the LoongArch support in the GRUB. > will get accepted at some point. I'd suggest the tests be made assuming > that (or some other patch LoongArch patch series) will get accepted. > The INSTALL file can be updated to indicate that QEMU > 7 is required, > or something like that. Also, if there's any special build requirements > those should also be noted in the INSTALL file and docs/grub*.texi > should be updated for the new arch. For example, what's the minimum GCC > version needed to compile? Yeah, that would be nice if INSTALL file is updated too. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
