Re: Fuloong liberated

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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On 16.05.2011 11:12, Vladimir 'φ-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. To generate firmware
> image do:
> bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub
> cd grub
> ./configure --target=mipsel --with-platform=loongson
> 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
This selection gives you a shell. On more ideas how to customize it a
page about our Coreboot port is handy (many parts are similar with some
adjustments, I'll write manual entry later):
http://74.6.238.254/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fgrub.enbug.org%2FCoreBoot&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fgrub.enbug.org%2fCoreBoot&d=4866528855460123&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=2a582f22,ed203179&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=I2yqDI7Mj.pG4UxQZUE_PA--
(our server is down, it's link to a cached version)
> The resulting grub.img can be flashed using flashrom
> http://flashrom.org/Flashrom. Be sure to have backup chip before
> flashing. Fortunately the chip is socketed so you can easily replace it.
> Although the image such created worked fine for me, it wasn't tested
> enough yet so have a backup chip and please, report if you encounter any
> problems.
>
> Have fun
>
> @Danny, @Lemote: is anybody interested in distributing Fuloongs with GRUB
> @FSF, rms: if anybody distributes Fuloong this way can it be endorsed by
> FSF?
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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