Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] ppc: Add aCube Sam460ex board

[Alexander Graf]

On 02/20/2018 11:09 AM, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:34:25AM +0100, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> > 1;5002;0c> Add emulation of aCube Sam460ex board based on AMCC 460EX 
> > embedded SoC.
> > > This is not a complete implementation yet with a lot of components
> > > still missing but enough for the U-Boot firmware to start and to boot
> > > a Linux kernel or AROS.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: François Revol <address@hidden>
> > > Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>
> >
> > I'm not thrilled with having a machine type that can't be used without
> > extracting a bootloader image from somewhere, but from the other
> > thread that's not easy to fix.
>
> This is not meant to be like that and I'd like to also submit the 
> u-boot image once we figure out how to do it. Especially because the 
> boot loader one can extract from the updater is buggy but here's a 
> fixed binary that works here: http://zero.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/qemu/
>
> U-Boot is GPL so we would need to include the source as well (the 
> README in the link above contain the source URL and the patches needed 
> are there as well). If there's no easy way to host it in the QEMU repo 
> I could put it in my own git repo and submit a patch to use that as a 
> submodule if that's acceptable. It seems there are some firmware 
> images that reference external git repos already but not sure what's 
> the preferred way.

IMHO the preferred way would be to integrate sam460ex support in 
upstream U-Boot and just build it from there. We already mirror U-Boot 
on git.qemu.org and package up that tree, so packaging up one more 
target from there would be trivial.


Alex