Re: [PATCH v10 00/30] Add KVM LoongArch support

[Xi Ruoyao]

On Mon, 2023-05-22 at 10:37 +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote:
> > Manual is actually one issue, however it does not prevent the review
> > process. There are some drivers for *fruit* devices, I can not find
> > the hw manual also.  With the manual, it helps to review and points
> > out the further and detailed issues.
> 
> There's a *slight* difference: the certain vendor you've mentioned is 
> historically uncooperative in providing the documentation, so outside 
> contributors had to reverse-engineer and document the HW themselves; but 
> in Loongson's case, you *are* the vendor, so you are probably in a 
> position that can make everyone's life easier by at least pushing for 
> the docs release...

And some other differences:

1. *fruit* devices use an ARM64 which is already documented anyway.
2. *fruit* devices are more "popular" and the maintainer can test on it
more easily.  And *fruit* have more fans (esp. more fans with CS/EE
skills, while we have more [expletive deleted] fans :( ) so their
reverse-engineer effort is easier as well.  Yes it may be not fair to
others, but the world is just not fair.
3. *fruit* is really a bad example... When people ask me how to build
Linux From Scratch on *fruit* I just tell them "try to avoid things from
a vendor with no intention to allow you run another OS".

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University