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

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

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?

> 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 :(


Alex