[PATCH 00/13] bootstd: Update ARM QEMU for standard boot and environment

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 at 10:20, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > This series fixes a few reported problems with virtio block-device
> > handling.
> >
> > It also moves QEMU over to use standard boot on ARM, by adding a suitable
> > bootdev and bootmeth for qfw.
> >
> > Finally, it moves the boards to use a text-based environment. The only
> > remaining item in the config.h header file is CFG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE so it
> > would be nice to move that to Kconfig, if possible.
>
> Figuring out what to do about CFG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE is a good question. For
> this series, have you been able to perform other tests on top of it,
> such as verifying off the shelf distributions still boot / install as
> expected?

I did not do a new install, but did check that it booting Debian OK.
Should we try to get some of this into CI or would it be too painful?

I have done a lot of checking with RockPro64 which of course uses the
same logic (except for qfw which is new and which I manually tested).
Of course we also have a lot of unit tests for bootstd, to prevent
regressionsl,

Regards,
Simon