[PATCH 0/2] Fix MIPS/Malta target and its IDE work

Daniel Schwierzeck
2021-02-23T18:06:38Z

Am Dienstag, den 23.02.2021, 15:19 +0100 schrieb Reinoud Zandijk:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 22.02.2021, 20:56 +0100 schrieb Reinoud Zandijk:
> > > If I remove it, the machine just spins in Qemu, no output,
> > > nothing.
> > > If I add
> > > it, it works fine again. I found out by bisecting. I have no idea
> > > why
> > > the
> > > tests aren't picking this up. Could it be a qemu/gcc/binutils
> > > combination
> > > issue? A symbol not set as expected?
> > >
> > > qemu 5.1.0
> > > gcc 8.3.0
> > > binutils 2.32
> > >
> >
> > which board config did you try exactly? malta or maltael?
>
> Both malta and maltael have the same behaviour. And yeah, for maltael
> i needed
> the u-boot-swap.bin indeed! That was not that obvious at first but
> trial and
> error showed it.
>
> How are the tests performed? Are the actual u-boot images passed as
> compiled
> with `-bios' to qemu and that alone? Or are the tests also sneaking
> in the FDT
> to qemu? By f.e. appending them?

we use the images as built by the default configs. We don't use "-bios"
but "-drive if=pflash,file=${U_BOOT_BUILD_DIR}/flash.img,format=raw" to
emulate NOR flash and to be closer to hardware.

flash.img is created with that script:
https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot-test-hooks/-/blob/master/bin/flash.qemu_gen_padded_image

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- Daniel