Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] riscv: Switch to use generic platform of opensbi bios images

[Alistair Francis]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 5:27 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Anup,
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 8:20 PM Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: 22 June 2020 17:43
> > > To: Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>
> > > Cc: Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>; Bastian Koppelmann
> > > <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de>; Palmer Dabbelt
> > > <palmerdabbelt@google.com>; Sagar Karandikar
> > > <sagark@eecs.berkeley.edu>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; qemu-
> > > riscv@nongnu.org; Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>; Bin Meng
> > > <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] riscv: Switch to use generic platform of 
> > > opensbi
> > > bios images
> > >
> > > Hi Anup,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 6:09 PM Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Qemu-riscv <qemu-riscv-
> > > > > bounces+anup.patel=wdc.com@nongnu.org> On Behalf Of Bin Meng
> > > > > Sent: 22 June 2020 12:03
> > > > > To: Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>; Bastian Koppelmann
> > > > > <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de>; Palmer Dabbelt
> > > > > <palmerdabbelt@google.com>; Sagar Karandikar
> > > > > <sagark@eecs.berkeley.edu>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; qemu-
> > > > > riscv@nongnu.org
> > > > > Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>; Bin Meng
> > > > > <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] riscv: Switch to use generic platform of
> > > > > opensbi bios images
> > > > >
> > > > > From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > The RISC-V generic platform is a flattened device tree (FDT) based
> > > > > platform where all platform specific functionality is provided based
> > > > > on FDT passed by previous booting stage. The support was added in
> > > > > the upstream OpenSBI
> > > > > v0.8 release recently.
> > > > >
> > > > > This series updates QEMU to switch to use generic platform of
> > > > > opensbi bios images.
> > > > >
> > > > > The patch emails do not contain binary bits, please grab all updates
> > > > > at https://github.com/lbmeng/qemu.git bios branch.
> > > >
> > > > It will be nice to have this series updated to for fw_dynamic.bin .
> > >
> > > Do you mean we include fw_dynamic.bin for virt & sifive_u, and
> > > fw_dynamic.elf for spike?
> > >
> > > But previously we agreed to include only generic platform BIN and ELF 
> > > files.
> > > See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-05/msg00664.html
> >
> > I am suggesting to use Generic platform fw_dynamic.bin and fw_dynamic.elf
> > for QEMU virt, QEMU spike, and QEMU sifive_u machines.
>
> Do you mean we replace fw_jump.bin with fw_dynamic.bin in QEMU? If
> everyone agrees this is the way to go, I can rebase this series on top
> of Atish's fw_dynamic.bin support series.

I think fw_dynamic makes the most sense. The order doesn't really
matter, but as we are checking in binaries it might be best to avoid
too much churn and rebase this on top of Atish's patches.

Alistair

>
> Regards,
> Bin
>