[coreboot] On loongson CPU or MIPS ARCH

li guang lig.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com
Tue Apr 30 04:20:49 CEST 2013


在 2013-04-29一的 19:05 -0700,ron minnich写道:
> let's take this one step at a time.
> 
> First off, we're going to need to work out names. Since loongson
> requires patches, does that mean it is more or less than a base mips?

It has a little new instructions against mips for optimization,
like MULT.G, DIV.G, MADD.G(float multi-then-add).

> 
> So, what do we use as names?

I think we can use mips directly,
because loongson internally use it.

> 
> Let's start with the arch/ and cpu/
> src/arch/? mips? Is it a true mips?
> 
> src/cpu/loongson/? what name here?

I think src/cpu/loongson is right,
and src/arch/mips is also right.

(maybe just like via :-))






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