On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit :
On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote:
Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that
ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in QEMU (as far as I
can see, they do not work without the bios at all, so it's also not
possible
to use a Linux image with the "-kernel" CLI option directly).
It is at least in theory possible to run bare-metal code on
either board, by passing either a pflash or a bios argument.
True. I did some more research, and seems like there was once support for
those boards in u-boot, but it got removed there a couple of years ago
already:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/98f705c9cefdf
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/b147ff2f37d5b
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/7514037bcdc37
But I agree that there seem to be no signs of anybody actually
successfully using these boards for anything, so we should
deprecate-and-delete them.
Yes, let's mark them as deprecated now ... if someone still uses them and
speaks up, we can still revert the deprecation again.
I really would like to be able to use them to validate Linux Kernel changes,
hence looking for that missing BIOS.
If we remove ppc405 from QEMU, we won't be able to do any regression tests
of Linux Kernel on those processors.
If you/someone managed to compile an old version of u-boot for one of these
two boards, so that we would finally have something for regression testing,
we can of course also keep the boards in QEMU...
Thomas
