[U-Boot] u-boot on qemu vexpress-a9

[Nicolae Rosia]

Hello,

I'm trying to run u-boot on qemu machine vexpress-a9 and I get the
following weird output and crash:
$ qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -m 1024 -smp 4 -nographic -kernel u-boot
U-Boot 2016.11-rc2-00090-g5ac5861-dirty (Oct 27 2016 - 14:46:54 +0300)

DRAM: 1 GiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
Flash:

U-Boot 2016.11-rc2-00090-g5ac5861-dirty (Oct 27 2016 - 14:46:54 +0300)

DRAM: 1 GiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
Flash:

U-Boot 2016.11-rc2-00090-g5ac5861-dirty (Oct 27 2016 - 14:46:54 +0300)

DRAM: 1 GiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
Flash:

U-Boot 2016.11-rc2-00090-g5ac5861-dirty (Oct 27 2016 - 14:46:54 +0300)

DRAM: 1 GiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
Flash: Bad ram pointer (nil)
Aborted (core dumped)

I've only tried this on master
(5ac5861c4ba851b473e6a24940b412b397627d8d), config
vexpress_ca9x4_defconfig, with qemu 2.7.0 and 2.4.1.
Since I don't know if this is a u-boot bug or qemu bug, I've also
reported this on qemu [0]

Best regards,
Nicolae Rosia

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1579327?comments=all