Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] mips_malta: fixes to support YAMON firmware

[Leon Alrae]

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On 28/06/13 14:20, Leon Alrae wrote:
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> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/251250/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/251254/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/251253/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/251251/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/251252/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/251249/
> 
> On 14/06/13 08:30, Leon Alrae wrote:
>> From: Paul Burton <address@hidden>
>>
>> This patchset fixes some bugs with MIPS malta emulation allowing the YAMON
>> firmware to run.
>>
>> YAMON can be found at http://www.mips.com/products/system-software/yamon/
>>
>> You can then boot to a YAMON prompt by passing the path to yamon-XX.bin to
>> the -bios argument or by writing yamon-XX.bin to the start of a flash image
>> passed to the -pflash argument. The YAMON 2.21 release & newer have been 
>> tested
>> to work.
>>
>> There is still a bug preventing YAMON from initialising the ethernet 
>> controller
>> so an application or kernel cannot be loaded via TFTP. However the serial
>> console functions and can examine or modify memory, modify the flash and
>> environment variables, access disks etc.
>>
>> As of YAMON 2.22 a YAMON bug prevents the environment from being initialized
>> correctly by an "erase -e" command if you begin with a zeroed flash image. As
>> a workaround you can fill empty areas of your flash image with 1s be 
>> generating
>> your flash image like so:
>>
>>   dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=4 | tr '\0' '\377' >flash.bin
>>   dd if=yamon-02.22.bin of=flash.bin conv=notrunc
>>
>> Paul Burton (6):
>>   mips_malta: fix BIOS endianness swapping
>>   mips_malta: correct reading MIPS revision at 0x1fc00010
>>   mips_malta: generate SPD EEPROM data at runtime
>>   mips_malta: cap BIOS endian swap length at 0x3e0000 bytes
>>   mips_malta: generate SMBUS EEPROM data
>>   pflash_cfi01: duplicate status byte from bits 23:16 for 32bit reads
>>
>>  hw/block/pflash_cfi01.c |    3 +
>>  hw/mips/mips_malta.c    |  219 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>  2 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
>>
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