[U-Boot] [mips] malta configuration works in qemu-1.5 does not in qemu-1.6

Gabor Juhos juhosg at openwrt.org
Mon Nov 11 11:25:44 CET 2013


2013.11.11. 10:52 keltezéssel, Daniel Schwierzeck írta:
> 2013/11/10 Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> master is: 15c5cdf from Fri Nov 8 15:25:29 2013 -0500
>> u-boot-2013.10
>>
>> Working in qemu-1.5.3.
>> Does not work in qemu-1.6.1.
>>
>> The command prompt is not displayed, 100% cpu consumption.
>>
>> ---
>> $ qemu-system-mips -M malta -nographic -drive if=pflash,file=/tmp/flash -m
>> 256
>>
>>
>> U-Boot 2013.10-00249-g15c5cdf (Nov 10 2013 - 18:00:48)
>>
>> Board: MIPS Malta CoreLV (Qemu)
>> DRAM:  256 MiB
>> ---
>>
>> Any idea what the difference? any fix pending somewhere?
>>
> 
> it is obviously am upstream change in qemu, which requires a fix in u-boot.
> 
> Paul or Gabor, do you have an idea?

It is broken since the following change in qemu:

commit a427338b222b43197c2776cbc996936df0302f51
Author: Paul Burton <paul.burton at imgtec.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 14 08:30:44 2013 +0100

    mips_malta: correct reading MIPS revision at 0x1fc00010

    Rather than modifying the BIOS code at its original location, copy it
    for the 0x1fc00000 region & modify the copy. This means the original
    ROM code is correctly readable at 0x1e000010 whilst the MIPS revision
    is readable at 0x1fc00010.

    Additionally the code previously operated on target memory which would
    later be overwritten by the BIOS image upon CPU reset if the -bios
    argument was used to specify the BIOS image. This led to the written
    MIPS revision being lost. Copying using rom_copy when -bios is used
    fixes this issue.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton at imgtec.com>
    Signed-off-by: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae at imgtec.com>
    Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>

Due to that change, we are getting a CPU exception while probing the
flash at the 0x1fc00000 address.

Changing the MALTA_FLASH_BASE constant to 0x1e000000 in
'arch/mips/include/asm/malta.h' fixes the problem. I will send a patch for that.

-Gabor


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