[PATCH 2/2] Add MIPS arch support to barebox

Shinya Kuribayashi skuribay at pobox.com
Tue Jun 28 12:23:18 EDT 2011


Thanks Jean for bringing up old stuff :-), and nice to see the first
(workable) MIPS port of barebox this time, Antony.

>> Is it runnable at all?

Not at all, unfortunately.

>> I think, that Shinya's concepts can be used in the future, but they
>> are very complex for initial mips support.
>>
>> IMHO, the Shinya's code is redundant (>  200K ) --- initial support
>> must be as small as possible.

I didn't care about code size, complexity, workable or not (ok, this is
important) when I was working on it.  What did care about is its boot
design.Having a glance at your head.S, compute_offset part looks good.
That's a part of what I have in mind, and implemented as ADR macro in
my prototype.

I'll write a lot more some other day.



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