On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 15:01, Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > > 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 > >
Can we get rid of the magic number check at the same time? I noticed this is still in the arm64 code as well, but for pure PE/COFF EFI boot, there is really no point in checking the image for magic numbers - we are doing essentially the same as a chainload, and we could boot arbitrary PE/COFF binaries from GRUB if we wanted to. > > 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. > Please cc me when sending out the patches, and I will take time to review the pieces that are specific to EFI and Linux. Thanks, Ard. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
