From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QM1E8-0006hW-5Z for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 13:05:04 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM0IX-0005NP-FO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:05:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM0IV-000127-3k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:05:33 -0400 Received: from nyu.romanrm.ru ([91.206.142.121]:54247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM0IU-00011g-Su; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:05:31 -0400 Received: from home.romanrm.ru (unknown [92.255.174.192]) by nyu.romanrm.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A3C45204E; Mon, 16 May 2011 22:05:26 +0600 (YEKST) Received: from natsu (natsu.romanrm.ru [IPv6:2001:470:989e::100]) by home.romanrm.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CCE5C1FF95; Mon, 16 May 2011 22:05:24 +0600 (YEKST) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 22:05:23 +0600 From: Roman Mamedov To: loongson-dev@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [loongson-dev] Fuloong liberated Message-ID: <20110516220523.77082d8a@natsu> In-Reply-To: <4DD0EA8A.4080301@gmail.com> References: <4DD0EA8A.4080301@gmail.com> Organization: http://version6.ru/ X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/lFvjwPSK.p9fjWhlTC/_NtN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 91.206.142.121 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:05:03 -0400 Cc: gnewsense-dev , phcoder@gmail.com, Danny Clark , rms / fsf sysadmin / fsf volunteers / lemote , The development of GRUB 2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:05:34 -0000 --Sig_/lFvjwPSK.p9fjWhlTC/_NtN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:12:42 +0200 Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello all. As you all probably know the Floong as shipped by lemote uses > a 64K binary blob to initialize the video which makes it non-free. > Fortunately now there is an alternative: GRUB2. Hello, So you are replacing PMON with GRUB2, but are you sure the video BIOS is al= so removed by this operation? And then, is it GRUB2 that initializes the video chip instead of SiS BIOS, setting up VRAM timings, the video output, screen mode, etc? Does it actually have special code for bringing up the SiS 315E? > To generate firmware > image do: > bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub > cd grub > ./configure --target=3Dmipsel --with-platform=3Dloongson > make > ./grub-mkimage -C xz -O mipsel-fuloong-flash -o grub.img -d grub-core/ > normal linux ata usb_keyboard ohci part_msdos ext2 xfs part_gpt ls halt > reboot usbms gzio Can you perhaps post a compiled firmware somewhere. > The resulting grub.img can be flashed using flashrom > http://flashrom.org/Flashrom. Be sure to have backup chip before > flashing. Also I believe it should be possible to chain-load this image from PMON for testing, via the "load " command, and then "g". --=20 With respect, Roman --Sig_/lFvjwPSK.p9fjWhlTC/_NtN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3RS0MACgkQTLKSvz+PZwgcJQCfegdYVgxb4uVN7e2QygFUdzjb KJcAoJOOqVUXOblFViRPkRrF90DFt/6x =Z3iG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/lFvjwPSK.p9fjWhlTC/_NtN--