This is the majority of the loongarch architecture code, including
the final system call interface and all core functionality.
It still misses three sets of peripheral but vital patches to add
support for other subsystems, which have yet to pass review:
- The drivers/firmware/efi stub for booting from a standard UEFI
firmware implementation. Both the original custom boot interface
and a draft implementation of the EFI stub did not make it, so
it is currently impossible to boot the kernel, until the
loongarch specific portions get accepted into the UEFI subsystem
- The drivers/irqchip/irq-loongson-*.c drivers are shared with the
the MIPS port, but currently lack support for ACPI based booting,
which will get merged through the irqchip subsystem.
- Similarly, the drivers/pci/controller/pci-loongson.c needs to be
modified for ACPI support, which will be merged through the
PCI subsystem.
While the port cannot actually be used before all the above are
merged, having it in 5.19 helps to establish the user space ABI
for the libc ports to build on, and to help any treewide changes
in the mainline kernel get applied here as well. A gcc-12 based
tool chains for build testing is now included in
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/.
Original description from Huacai Chen at
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220603072053.35005-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/:
"LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.
LoongArch includes a reduced 32-bit version (LA32R), a standard 32-bit
version (LA32S) and a 64-bit version (LA64). LoongArch use ACPI as its
boot protocol LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers (similar to APIC)
are already added in the next revision of ACPI Specification (current
revision is 6.4).
This patchset is adding basic LoongArch support in mainline kernel, we
can see a complete snapshot here:
https://github.com/loongson/linux/tree/loongarch-nexthttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson.git/log/?h=loongarch-next
Cross-compile tool chain to build kernel:
https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-2022-03-03-cross-tools-gcc-glibc.tar.xz
A CLFS-based Linux distro:
https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-system-2022-03-03.tar.bz2
Open-source tool chain which is under review (Binutils and Gcc are already upstream):
https://github.com/loongson/binutils-gdb/tree/upstream_v3.1https://github.com/loongson/gcc/tree/loongarch_upstream_v6.3https://github.com/loongson/glibc/tree/loongarch_2_35_dev_v2.2
Loongson and LoongArch documentations:
https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation
LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers:
https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2203https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2313"
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Merge tag 'loongarch-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull initial Loongarch architecture code from Arnd Bergmann:
"This is the majority of the loongarch architecture code, including the
final system call interface and all core functionality.
It still misses three sets of peripheral but vital patches to add
support for other subsystems, which have yet to pass review:
- The drivers/firmware/efi stub for booting from a standard UEFI
firmware implementation. Both the original custom boot interface
and a draft implementation of the EFI stub did not make it, so it
is currently impossible to boot the kernel, until the loongarch
specific portions get accepted into the UEFI subsystem
- The drivers/irqchip/irq-loongson-*.c drivers are shared with the
the MIPS port, but currently lack support for ACPI based booting,
which will get merged through the irqchip subsystem.
- Similarly, the drivers/pci/controller/pci-loongson.c needs to be
modified for ACPI support, which will be merged through the PCI
subsystem.
While the port cannot actually be used before all the above are
merged, having it in 5.19 helps to establish the user space ABI for
the libc ports to build on, and to help any treewide changes in the
mainline kernel get applied here as well.
A gcc-12 based tool chains for build testing is now included in
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/"
Original description from Huacai Chen:
"LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.
LoongArch includes a reduced 32-bit version (LA32R), a standard 32-bit
version (LA32S) and a 64-bit version (LA64). LoongArch use ACPI as its
boot protocol LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers (similar to APIC)
are already added in the next revision of ACPI Specification (current
revision is 6.4).
This patchset is adding basic LoongArch support in mainline kernel, we
can see a complete snapshot here:
https://github.com/loongson/linux/tree/loongarch-nexthttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson.git/log/?h=loongarch-next
Cross-compile tool chain to build kernel:
https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-2022-03-03-cross-tools-gcc-glibc.tar.xz
A CLFS-based Linux distro:
https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-system-2022-03-03.tar.bz2
Open-source tool chain which is under review (Binutils and Gcc are already upstream):
https://github.com/loongson/binutils-gdb/tree/upstream_v3.1https://github.com/loongson/gcc/tree/loongarch_upstream_v6.3https://github.com/loongson/glibc/tree/loongarch_2_35_dev_v2.2
Loongson and LoongArch documentations:
https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation
LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers:
https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2203https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2313"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220603072053.35005-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/
* tag 'loongarch-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (24 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer information for LoongArch
LoongArch: Add Loongson-3 default config file
LoongArch: Add Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) support
LoongArch: Add multi-processor (SMP) support
LoongArch: Add VDSO and VSYSCALL support
LoongArch: Add some library functions
LoongArch: Add misc common routines
LoongArch: Add ELF and module support
LoongArch: Add signal handling support
LoongArch: Add system call support
LoongArch: Add memory management
LoongArch: Add process management
LoongArch: Add exception/interrupt handling
LoongArch: Add boot and setup routines
LoongArch: Add other common headers
LoongArch: Add atomic/locking headers
LoongArch: Add CPU definition headers
LoongArch: Add build infrastructure
LoongArch: Add writecombine support for drm
LoongArch: Add ELF-related definitions
...