[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/30] General fixes / cleanup for RISC-V and improvements to qemu-riscv

[Auer, Lukas]

Hi Bin,

On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 21:20 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Lukas,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:37 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Lukas,
> > 
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:08 AM Lukas Auer
> > <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This patch series includes general fixes and cleanup for RISC-V.
> > > It also
> > > adds support for booting Linux on qemu-riscv. At the moment, only
> > > single-core systems are supported. Support for multi-core systems
> > > will
> > > be added with a future patch series.
> > > 
> > > To boot Linux on qemu-riscv, Linux must be compiled into BBL as a
> > > payload. BBL must be included in a FIT image and supplied to QEMU
> > > with
> > > the -kernel parameter. Its location in memory is embedded in the
> > > device
> > > tree, which QEMU passes to u-boot.
> > > To test this, QEMU and riscv-pk (BBL) must be modified. QEMU is
> > > modified
> > > to add support for loading binary files (FIT images in this case)
> > > in
> > > addition to ELF files. riscv-pk must be modified to adjust the
> > > link
> > > address and to ignore the kernel address from the device tree. A
> > > pull
> > > request for QEMU, which implements this, is available at [1]. A
> > > modified
> > > version of riscv-pk is available at [2].
> > > 
> > > [1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-qemu/pull/175
> > > [2]: https://github.com/lukasauer/riscv-pk/tree/riscv-u-boot
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for these patches. I have reviewed all patches and sent out
> > my
> > comments. Good work!
> 
> When you spin the v2 series, is it possible to rebase the series on
> top of u-boot-dm/next [1]  branch, which contains the virtio support,
> so that we can test QEMU RISC-V with virtio? Thanks!
> 
> [1] 
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-dm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next
> 
> Regards,
> Bin

Thank you for your reviews!
Yes, I will do that for v2.

Thanks,
Lukas