[U-Boot] [PATCH] qemu-arm: Add persistent environment support

Takahiro Akashi
2018-12-12T01:42:56Z

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 06:04:05PM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 16:51, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Currently on qemu-arm platforms environment is kept in RAM. Instead
> > use pflash device 1 to provide persistent environment support across
> > device reset.
> >
> > Also (optionally) provide support for persistent environment across
> > qemu machine OFF/ON using following instructions:
> >
> > - Create envstore.img using qemu-img:
> > qemu-img create -f raw envstore.img 64M
> > - Add a pflash drive parameter to the command line:
> > -drive if=pflash,format=raw,index=1,file=envstore.img
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig | 7 +++++++
> > configs/qemu_arm_defconfig | 7 +++++++
> > doc/README.qemu-arm | 6 ++++++
> > include/configs/qemu-arm.h | 8 +++++++-
> > 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
>
> Gentle reminder. Please let me know if you have any further comments.

Another use case is atf + u-boot (although I don't know people are
interested in it). Put bl1.bin in flash0(0x0-0x4000000) and put
fip.bin in flash1(0x4000000-0x8000000). Please note that, with secure=on,
flash0 is in secure and flash1 is in non-secure.
While I admit that your patch is workable, my point is that there are
different use cases and it may not be a good idea to put one configuration
in qemu-arm.h.

Thanks,
-Takahiro Akashi

> -Sumit
>
> > diff --git a/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig b/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig
> > index f4502c9..0f13716 100644
> > --- a/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig
> > +++ b/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig
> > @@ -29,3 +29,10 @@ CONFIG_USB=y
> > CONFIG_DM_USB=y
> > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
> > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_PCI=y
> > +CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH=y
> > +CONFIG_MTD=y
> > +CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH=y
> > +CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER=y
> > +CONFIG_CFI_FLASH=y
> > +CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE=y
> > +CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI=y
> > diff --git a/configs/qemu_arm_defconfig b/configs/qemu_arm_defconfig
> > index acebdc5..b75363e 100644
> > --- a/configs/qemu_arm_defconfig
> > +++ b/configs/qemu_arm_defconfig
> > @@ -29,3 +29,10 @@ CONFIG_USB=y
> > CONFIG_DM_USB=y
> > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
> > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_PCI=y
> > +CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH=y
> > +CONFIG_MTD=y
> > +CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH=y
> > +CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER=y
> > +CONFIG_CFI_FLASH=y
> > +CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE=y
> > +CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI=y
> > diff --git a/doc/README.qemu-arm b/doc/README.qemu-arm
> > index 2601656..e67bc13 100644
> > --- a/doc/README.qemu-arm
> > +++ b/doc/README.qemu-arm
> > @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ The minimal QEMU command line to get U-Boot up and running is:
> > Note that for some odd reason qemu-system-aarch64 needs to be explicitly
> > told to use a 64-bit CPU or it will boot in 32-bit mode.
> >
> > +Additional persistent U-boot environment support can be added as follows:
> > +- Create envstore.img using qemu-img:
> > + qemu-img create -f raw envstore.img 64M
> > +- Add a pflash drive parameter to the command line:
> > + -drive if=pflash,format=raw,index=1,file=envstore.img
> > +
> > Additional peripherals that have been tested to work in both U-Boot and Linux
> > can be enabled with the following command line parameters:
> >
> > diff --git a/include/configs/qemu-arm.h b/include/configs/qemu-arm.h
> > index fedc466..83a930b 100644
> > --- a/include/configs/qemu-arm.h
> > +++ b/include/configs/qemu-arm.h
> > @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
> > #define CONFIG_SYS_HZ 1000
> >
> > /* Environment options */
> > -#define CONFIG_ENV_SIZE SZ_64K
> > +#define CONFIG_ENV_ADDR 0x4000000
> > +#define CONFIG_ENV_SIZE SZ_256K
> >
> > #define BOOT_TARGET_DEVICES(func) \
> > func(SCSI, scsi, 0) \
> > @@ -42,4 +43,9 @@
> >
> > #define CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE 512
> >
> > +#define CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE
> > +#define CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE 0x0
> > +#define CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS 2
> > +#define CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT 256 /* Sector: 256K, Bank: 64M */
> > +
> > #endif /* __CONFIG_H */
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >