Re: [Qemu-devel] should we update QEMU's u-boot submodule and binary?

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 12.07.2017 12:44, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12.07.17 12:34, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 11.07.2017 20:22, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11.07.17 19:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> Hi; I just noticed that our u-boot submodule is still stuck on
>>>> a commit from 2014 when it was first added to QEMU. Should we
>>>> move this forward to some more recent u-boot release?
>>>>
>>>> I think we only use this for our ppc e500 rom...
>>>
>>> It probably makes sense to update the e500 rom and bump the submodule to
>>> the latest U-Boot release along the way, yes.
>>>
>>> U-Boot 2017.07 just got released, so now is quite a good point in time
>>> to do so.
>>
>> I think we should rather update the submodule to commit 79c884d7e4 since
>> that is the level that is used for the pc-bios/u-boot.e500 binary (see
>> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=d4574435a6530bbd96ae13 ).
> 
> Why not update both?

Because it needs some proper tests in that case...?

>> The problematic mv_gen_reg.h is also not part of that commit level
>> anymore.
>>
>> Alex, could you please send a patch for the update? Or shall I prepare
>> one?
> 
> I tried to compile U-Boot from 2017.07 earlier, but don't have a working
> ppc build environment anymore :(

I've never been into that e500 stuff, so I also do not have a proper
test environment for that embedded ppc stuff ==> let's update just the
submodule to 79c884d7e4 and call it a day?

 Thomas