On 10/20/21 10:16 AM, LEROY Christophe wrote:
Le 20/10/2021 à 14:43, Cédric Le Goater a écrit :
On 10/20/21 13:42, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
On 10/5/21 08:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit :
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit :
On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
wrote:
Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that
ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in
QEMU (as far as I
can see, they do not work without the bios at all, so it's
also not possible
to use a Linux image with the "-kernel" CLI option directly).
It is at least in theory possible to run bare-metal code on
either board, by passing either a pflash or a bios argument.
True. I did some more research, and seems like there was once
support for those boards in u-boot, but it got removed there a
couple of years ago already:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/98f705c9cefdf
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/b147ff2f37d5b
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/7514037bcdc37
But I agree that there seem to be no signs of anybody actually
successfully using these boards for anything, so we should
deprecate-and-delete them.
Yes, let's mark them as deprecated now ... if someone still
uses
them and speaks up, we can still revert the deprecation again.
I really would like to be able to use them to validate Linux
Kernel
changes, hence looking for that missing BIOS.
If we remove ppc405 from QEMU, we won't be able to do any
regression
tests of Linux Kernel on those processors.
If you/someone managed to compile an old version of u-boot for
one of these
two boards, so that we would finally have something for
regression testing,
we can of course also keep the boards in QEMU...
I can see that it would be usefor for some cases, but unless
someone
volunteers to track down the necessary firmware and look after
it, I
think we do need to deprecate it - I certainly don't have the
capacity
to look into this.
I will look at it, please allow me a few weeks though.
Well, building it was not hard but now I'd like to know what board
QEMU actually emulates, there are way too many codenames and PVRs.
yes. We should try to reduce the list below. Deprecating embedded
machines
is one way.
Why should we reduce that list? It's good to have different cpu
options when one wants to test code for different PPC versions (maybe
also in user mode) or just to have a quick list of these at one place.
I think there are many CPUs in that list which cannot be used with any
board, some of them might be also in a very incomplete state. So
presenting such a big list to the users is confusing and might create
wrong expectations. It would be good to remove at least the CPUs which
are really completely useless.
Maybe only remove some from system emulation but keep all of them
in user emulation?
Or keep them all but mark those that are not tested/may be incomplete?
So the used can see what is expected to work and what may need to be
fixed. That way somebody may try and fix it whereas if it's not there
they are unlikely to try to add it.
The bamboo machine with 440 CPUs is booting with the latest kernel
and we have an acceptance test for it now, thanks to Thomas. There
is not much effort in keeping them in a working state until someone
volunteers. Hopefully, Christophe is making sure that we are not
breaking anything with Linux support.
The 405 machine are still close to deprecation I think. We are still
struggling to boot one with mainline Linux, using uboot provided by
Thomas which skips SDRAM init. It is not clear to me if u-boot is
strictly necessary. It depends if Linux relies on it to do some
pre-initialization of HW. I guess once we find a good DTS for it, or
not, we can take a decision.
I now have a hacked configuration booting linux with the hotfoot DTS and
the kernel is booting up to starting /init
Then it is faulting forever taking a DSI for write protection. The
problem is now likely in Linux and I'm investigating it, but I'm having
problem with GDB (7.8.1), I'm hitting the bug
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17700
And GDB 11.1 coredumps while reading vmlinux's symbols
Hopefully I'll find a GDB version between 7.8 and 11 that works.
Just to confirm, you're not really having problems with the ARM port of
GDB, right? It is a 32-bit PowerPC one. The bug you pointed out is only
a reference to a similar one for PowerPC?
