u-boot patch "[v2,02/16] arm: qemu: Add an SPL build" issue help

[Simon Glass]

Hi ziheng,

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 00:26, 曹子恒 <ziheng.cao at oritek.com.cn> wrote:
>
> Hi, Simon Glass：
>         we have an issue based on this patch below, can you help us ?
>         Patch：https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20220117150428.1580273-2-sjg@chromium.org/
>
> Our Environment：
> Qemu Version：7.0.0
> U-boot Baseline Version: 2021.10
>
> Steps:
>         1. we have only patched "[v2,02/16] arm: qemu: Add an SPL build", not all the "passage: Define a standard for firmware data flow" series patchs.
>
>         2. Baseed on this patch, we have made the following modifications：
>                 a. arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm-u-boot.dtsi （Left is original, right is modified， we think they are actually the same）
>         3. After compiling, image.bin is generated, image.map is as follows（we think it's ok, spl base addr is 0x00000000, and u-boot base addr is 0x00010000）：
>   4. but when we use following command to execute, it will block.
> command: ./qemu-system-arm -machine virt -nographic -bios image.bin
> result：
>  5.  some key files size：
> image.bin： 767936
> u-boot.bin：694764
> u-boot-spl.bin：15112
>
> We don't know what could be causing this problem, hope you can help us !

I cannot repeat this problem.

$ qemu-system-arm -machine virt -nographic -bios
/tmp/b/qemu_arm_spl/image.bin -version
QEMU emulator version 4.2.1 (Debian 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.23)
Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

I use the tree here:

https://github.com/sjg20/u-boot/tree/try-qemu

buildman -k -o /tmp/b/qemu_arm_spl -w qemu_arm_spl

$ qemu-system-arm -machine virt -nographic -bios /tmp/b/qemu_arm_spl/image.bin

U-Boot SPL 2022.10-rc2-00042-g5dac8f83d0d-dirty (Aug 11 2022 - 08:36:05 -0600)
Trying to boot from QEMU


U-Boot 2022.10-rc2-00042-g5dac8f83d0d-dirty (Aug 11 2022 - 08:36:05 -0600)

DRAM:  128 MiB
Core:  47 devices, 14 uclasses, devicetree: board
Flash: 32 MiB
Loading Environment from Flash... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default
environment

In:    pl011 at 9000000
Out:   pl011 at 9000000
Err:   pl011 at 9000000
Net:   eth0: virtio-net#32
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
=> QEMU: Terminated

 Regards,
Simon