Difference between revisions of "Loongson Todo List"

Revision as of 05:02, 20 January 2010

Kernel

• Todo List common to all MIPS variants.
• Loongson specifics:
  • platform driver for lemote 2f notebook, the (YeeLoong)
  • siliconmotion frame buffer driver for lemote 2f box (Fulong2f) and notebook (YeeLoong)
  • wifi driver for lemote 2f notebook, the (YeeLoong)

Bootloader

Currently, [PMON 2000] is used. Lemote makes the source for their PMON 2000 changes available.

Coreboot

• http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-March/032625.html

GRUB

• http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg13436.html
• http://www.mail-archive.com/gnewsense-dev@nongnu.org/msg01564.html

U-Boot

Lemote was working on U-Boot support, but I think they stopped. Existing work is here.

Toolchain

GDB

• reverse debugging

Virtualization

• KVM porting
• XEN porting
• OpenVZ porting
• Linux-VServer porting

Xorg

xf86-video-siliconmotion

• System hangs completely after a while if Depth 16 is used

Application

xulrunner

• relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GD against...
• N32 ABI support

firefox

• nanojit
• source and binary of Firefox 3.7alpha with JIT for Loongson available from [1]

thunderbird

(Called icedove in Debian GNU/Linux)

• xpcom assembly should be built as position independent
• source and binary of Thunderbird 3 with JIT for Loongson also available from [2]

chromium