[re-sent to correct mailing list] QEMU not booting U-Boot on almost all i.MX ARM boards

[Waseem ALKurdi]

Dear all,

I'm trying to get mainline U-Boot to boot on mainline QEMU 4.1.0 for the 'sabrelite' board, using the configuration 'mx6qsabrelite_defconfig'.

It's not booting at all. Actually, not a single U-Boot build for an i.MX board would boot, with the exception of 'imx25-pdk'.

I'm compiling U-Boot by un-tarring the source tarball and running the following commands:

$ time CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/toolchain/arm-2014.05/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- make ARCH=arm clean

$ time CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/toolchain/arm-2014.05/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- make ARCH=arm mrproper

$ time CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/toolchain/arm-2014.05/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- make ARCH=arm mx6qsabrelite_defconfig

then after the build finishes:

$ qemu-system-arm -M sabrelite -m 512M -kernel ~/Downloads/u-boot-2019.10-rc3/u-boot.imx -monitor stdio

And other variations on this command as well.

No amount of kernel commandline options or anything would make it boot. 

I have asked the same question on the U-Boot developers' mailing list, but they directed me here, as it seems to be an issue with QEMU's implementation of the 'sabrelite' board.

What should I do? 

Best regards,

Waseem