[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 00/11] MIPS Boston Development Board Support

[Paul Burton]

On 01/08/16 13:41, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 1.8.2016 14:09, Paul Burton wrote:
>> On 01/08/16 11:46, Michal Simek wrote:
>>> On 1.8.2016 12:06, Paul Burton wrote:
>>>> This series introduces initial support for the MIPS Boston, and FPGA
>>>> based development board & successor to the older Malta board. Further
>>>> peripheral work is needed but this introduces the basics.
>>>>
>>>> This can be tested in a currently out-of-tree QEMU port if desired,
>>>> which can be found in the boston branch of:
>>>>
>>>>   git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/paul/qemu.git
>>>>
>>>> QEMU can be used to run U-Boot like this:
>>>>
>>>>   ./configure --target-list=mips64el-softmmu
>>>>   make
>>>>   ./mips64el-softmmu/qemu-system-mips64el -M boston -m 2G \
>>>>     -bios u-boot.bin -serial stdio
>>>
>>> I have tried it and nothing is coming up.
>>>
>>> Latest u-boot + your patches
>>> make boston64r2el_defconfig
>>>
>>> and your qemu on ubuntu 14.
>>>
>>> Can you recheck it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michal
>>
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> This would be because U-Boot is being built for MIPS64r2 whilst QEMU is
>> emulating the MIPS64r6-implementing I6400, and MIPSr6 isn't entirely
>> backwards compatible with MIPSr2. If you reconfigure U-Boot to build for
>> MIPS64r6 then you should find that it runs correctly. I'll add mention
>> of that to the README file.
>
> sorry don't have any overview about mips at all.
> But last patch is adding 4 defconfigs 32r2 and 64r2 (big and little)
> endian.
>
> I do use
> .buildman-toolchains/gcc-4.9.0-nolibc/mips-linux/bin//mips-linux-gcc
>
> And getting this when I change it to mips64r6
> mips-linux-gcc: error: unrecognized argument in option '-march=mips64r6'

Hi Michal,

Ah, and that's why the defconfigs were changed to MIPSr2 in v3 of the 
patchset. The Boston board can technically use CPUs implementing any 
architecture revision, but is most commonly used with ones implementing 
MIPSr6 hence the QEMU default. If it weren't for that buildman failure 
with MIPSr6 it'd be the Boston defconfig default too.

> Are there any toolchain at generic location which buildman can use?

The toolchain I use is the codescape one available from imgtec.com:

     http://codescape-mips-sdk.imgtec.com/components/toolchain/2015.06-05/

The "IMG GNU Linux Toolchain" from that page will suffice. Anything with 
gcc 5.x or newer should work too if you wanted to use crosstool-ng, 
buildroot or similar to produce a toolchain.

Thanks,
     Paul