From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: References: <20200205125805.14226-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de> <20200205130109.GA1915618@lenoch> <427ca8ba-5ff0-3e46-3b61-1ec3ea038f01@pengutronix.de> <20200205132221.GA1916864@lenoch> From: Oleksij Rempel Message-ID: <94abde6b-080f-d347-fe8c-bb77753ed492@pengutronix.de> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:53:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200205132221.GA1916864@lenoch> Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [DistroKit] [PATCH v2 0/2] add MIPS platform support List-Id: DistroKit Mailinglist List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: distrokit-bounces@pengutronix.de Sender: "DistroKit" To: Ladislav Michl Cc: mol@pengutronix.de, distrokit@pengutronix.de, antonynpavlov@gmail.com, pmamonov@gmail.com On 05.02.20 14:22, Ladislav Michl wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 02:08:31PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote: >> >> >> On 05.02.20 14:01, Ladislav Michl wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 01:58:03PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote: >>>> v2: >>>> - add doc/hardware_mips_qemu.rst >>>> - fix kernel boot without barebox >>>> >>>> This is initial MIPS support for MIPSr2 BE soft float platform. >>>> Currently it was tested only with barebox and will need more effort to >>>> make it work with linux. >>> >>> Any objections making SGI Indy, Indigo2 and O2 support mainline? >>> As I'm probably the only user I do not eventually want to hold back >>> development making changes not usefull to others :) >> >> I have nothing against it. Will it work with toolchains we already have? Can >> we share same kernel and rootfs binaries for this machines? > > Toolchains and rootfs can be the same, however kernels are different, > SGI Indy is IP22, while SGI O2 is IP32. They are using ARCS firmware > ("bootloader"). For those curious, more info: > https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/IP22 > https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/IP32 This should be possible. We will prepare an example how this can be done properly. Kind regards, Oleksij Rempel -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ DistroKit mailing list DistroKit@pengutronix.de