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

Sumit Garg
2018-11-26T11:20:17Z

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(-)

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 */
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