Re: [Qemu-devel] can we update QEMU's version of u-boot.e500 ?

[Alexander Graf]

On 04.03.19 09:38, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:23:38PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 05:22, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 12:44:59AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03.01.19 18:38, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>> Hi; currently we ship with a u-boot.e500 which is from u-boot
>>>>> v2017.07. It would be nice to move that forward, specifically
>>>>> to at least v2017.11, which contains upstream u-boot's part of the
>>>>> fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1714750 .
>>>>> (There are more recent releases than that; it's just the first
>>>>> that contains the fix.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Then we could remove the workaround in scripts/make-release and
>>>>> close out the bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've cc'd David as the current maintainer of pc-bios/u-boot.e500
>>>>> and Alex as the last person who did an update.
>>>>
>>>> I think it's a great idea to update it.
>>>>
>>>> David, do you want to do that or rather have me send a patch?
>>>
>>> Please send a patch.
>>>
>>> I'm maintainer of all the ppc boards by default, but I really don't
>>> know anything much about e500 or u-boot.
>>
>> Hi -- any progress on this ? It would be nice to update the u-boot
>> blob before QEMU hits softfreeze for the next release in a
>> couple of weeks...
> 
> It would.  If there's been another patch, I haven't seen it though.

I wanted to build that on a PPC machine, but then realized I'd first
have to set up a PPC VM to actually build on (as the host is LE), and
that then somehow never happened.

Either way, I set myself up with a local cross compilation setup now, so
you should ideally have a patch that bumps U-Boot on e500 to 2019.01.


Alex