[U-Boot] RFC: Testing U-Boot Part 1

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday, August 25, 2011 16:21:51 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Simon Glass wrote:
> > For speed, debugging and convenience, it would be nice to run U-Boot
> > under a generic Linux environment on a workstation, and test all the
> > generic non-platform code. The basic problem with this is that the
> > non-platform code requires the platform code to operate. Even the x86
> > platform code is designed for standalone operation on a particular x86
> > board, and is not suitable for running under x86 Linux.
> 
> Some parts of what you are looking for can be done by running U-Boot
> images in a QEMU based emulated envrionment.  So far we have only a
> few targets in the tree that actually support this.  I wish we had
> more of them.
> 
> I am aware that this is a different thing from what you propose here,
> but I would like to state that we should not forget this option -
> anybody who wants to work in that area will be more than welcome, too.

i do a lot of testing using the GNU sim and Blackfin boards.  the goal there 
is that the GNU sim is able to execute all of the Blackfin builds 
*unmodified*, so i dont need sep configs.  as you say, both methods are very 
useful to have.
-mike
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