Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Firmware blob and git submodule for Sam460ex

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 20 February 2018 at 20:44, Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 18:31:17 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 20 February 2018 at 18:10, BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
>> > I've created a git repo for the Sam460ex u-boot sources and this adds
>> > that as a submodule and a separate patch to add the binary built from
>> > these sources. Feel free to keep this as two patches, squash them into
>> > one patch or take the git repo and commit the content under the QEMU
>> > repo and use that as a submodule as you see fit (or let me know if any
>> > changes are needed for these patches).
>> >
>> > BALATON Zoltan (2):
>> >   roms: Added git submodule for u-boot-sam460 (firmware for sam460ex)
>> >   pc-bios: Added u-boot-sam460 firmware binary
>>
>> We already have a submodule for u-boot. Is it not possible to
>> build this bios blob from those upstream u-boot sources?
>
> This is discussed in the following thread:
>   Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 2/2] ppc: Add aCube Sam460ex board
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2018-02/msg00268.html

If upstream u-boot have abandoned the board support I'm not very
enthusiastic about our taking it on :-(

thanks
-- PMM