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

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

[Peter Maydell]

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.

thanks
-- PMM

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

[Alexander Graf]

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?


Alex

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

[David Gibson]

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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.

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

[Peter Maydell]

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...

thanks
-- PMM

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

[David Gibson]

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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.

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

[Alexander Graf]

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.


Alex

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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

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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