Re: [PATCH] [ARM] Enable boot module for arm

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 15.11.2013 20:13, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Sat, 27 Jul 2013 06:21:56 +0200
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> пишет:
> 
>> On 27.07.2013 05:46, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>> В Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:04:34 +0200
>>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> пишет:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>> ARM branch won't be maintained anymore. My main problem with arm
>>>> currently is that testsuite works neither for arm-efi nor for arm-uboot
>>>> and I didn't find a way to make qemu load file from iso from either
>>>> u-boot or efi.
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you show command line used to run grub under qemu? So far I was
>>> unsuccessful to find working combination. Do you need special u-boot
>>> build?
>> I have exactly the same problem. It's possible to support verstile/pb 
>> with armv5 but available u-boot tutorials for qemu ask you to 
>> concatenate payload with u-boot itself which is annoying to handle.
> 
> With current grub (that added support for transparent caches on armv5)
> I can finally boot grub over PXE (core.img or rescue image; need to add
> netboot support) using qemu versatilepb.
> 
> Now the problem is to do anything useful hard disk is needed and
> default u-boot for versatileqemu does not seem to offer any support (or
> may be it is qemu -M versatilepb). Were you successful in running arm
> port under qemu?
> 
I didn't do netboot but concatenated with u-boot. It worked to similar
extent as what you describe. Another promising board is vexpress but I
had problems with MMC support in u-boot don't remember what it was exactly.
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