[PATCH 0/2] Fix MIPS/Malta target and its IDE work

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 2/23/21 7:06 PM, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 23.02.2021, 15:19 +0100 schrieb Reinoud Zandijk:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
>>> Am Montag, den 22.02.2021, 20:56 +0100 schrieb Reinoud Zandijk:
>>>> If I remove it, the machine just spins in Qemu, no output,
>>>> nothing.
>>>> If I add
>>>> it, it works fine again. I found out by bisecting. I have no idea
>>>> why
>>>> the
>>>> tests aren't picking this up. Could it be a qemu/gcc/binutils
>>>> combination
>>>> issue? A symbol not set as expected?
>>>>
>>>> qemu 5.1.0
>>>> gcc 8.3.0
>>>> binutils 2.32
>>>>
>>>
>>> which board config did you try exactly? malta or maltael?
>>
>> Both malta and maltael have the same behaviour. And yeah, for maltael
>> i needed
>> the u-boot-swap.bin indeed! That was not that obvious at first but
>> trial and
>> error showed it.
>>
>> How are the tests performed? Are the actual u-boot images passed as
>> compiled
>> with `-bios' to qemu and that alone? Or are the tests also sneaking
>> in the FDT
>> to qemu? By f.e. appending them?
>
> we use the images as built by the default configs. We don't use "-bios"
> but "-drive if=pflash,file=${U_BOOT_BUILD_DIR}/flash.img,format=raw" to
> emulate NOR flash and to be closer to hardware.
>
> flash.img is created with that script:
> https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot-test-hooks/-/blob/master/bin/flash.qemu_gen_padded_image
>

Hello Daniel,

thanks for pointing out how the Gitlab CI test is run.

This looks a bit different to doc/board/emulation/qemu-mips.rst where
'-pflash flash' is used as argument.

Do you want to update the man-page to use -drive instead of -pflash?

Best regards

Heinrich