From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60207) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVFDd-0002N3-Hw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:50:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVFDZ-00087s-Kg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:50:09 -0400 References: <40961524-561e-aa31-b043-7b8ae9203b7c@suse.de> <7bb17d85-a21b-d890-03cc-18f56b785361@redhat.com> From: Thomas Huth Message-ID: <3d688e8e-1140-557b-d2ed-1d96e6f5831a@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:49:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] should we update QEMU's u-boot submodule and binary? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf , Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers , "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" 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