Re: [Qemu-devel] can we update QEMU's version of u-boot.e500 ?

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:41:50AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04.03.19 09:38, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:23:38PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 05:22, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 12:44:59AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 03.01.19 18:38, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >>>>> Hi; currently we ship with a u-boot.e500 which is from u-boot
> >>>>> v2017.07. It would be nice to move that forward, specifically
> >>>>> to at least v2017.11, which contains upstream u-boot's part of the
> >>>>> fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1714750 .
> >>>>> (There are more recent releases than that; it's just the first
> >>>>> that contains the fix.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Then we could remove the workaround in scripts/make-release and
> >>>>> close out the bug.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've cc'd David as the current maintainer of pc-bios/u-boot.e500
> >>>>> and Alex as the last person who did an update.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think it's a great idea to update it.
> >>>>
> >>>> David, do you want to do that or rather have me send a patch?
> >>>
> >>> Please send a patch.
> >>>
> >>> I'm maintainer of all the ppc boards by default, but I really don't
> >>> know anything much about e500 or u-boot.
> >>
> >> Hi -- any progress on this ? It would be nice to update the u-boot
> >> blob before QEMU hits softfreeze for the next release in a
> >> couple of weeks...
> > 
> > It would.  If there's been another patch, I haven't seen it though.
> 
> I wanted to build that on a PPC machine, but then realized I'd first
> have to set up a PPC VM to actually build on (as the host is LE), and
> that then somehow never happened.
> 
> Either way, I set myself up with a local cross compilation setup now, so
> you should ideally have a patch that bumps U-Boot on e500 to 2019.01.

FWIW, qemu source tree includes a dockerfile for cross-builds of QEMU
itself, perhaps it is useful for u-boot builds too:

   tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-ppc64el-cross.docker

Regards,
Daniel
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