From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59187) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0l9L-0003E5-VQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:48:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0l9H-0006of-7m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:48:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46940) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0l9E-0006lg-Q3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:48:41 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 10:48:31 +0000 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20190304104831.GI4239@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <9b211327-06a8-9739-e984-4b05557c12b4@suse.de> <20190104050301.GB2801@umbus.fritz.box> <20190304083806.GA12893@umbus.fritz.box> <2909f1ff-4714-50f5-64c6-2a0712510837@csgraf.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2909f1ff-4714-50f5-64c6-2a0712510837@csgraf.de> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] can we update QEMU's version of u-boot.e500 ? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: David Gibson , Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers 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 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 -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|