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

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:45:31 +0100
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> пишет:

> 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.


Do you mean physical board? The only qemu machine for which I was able
to build working u-boot was versatilepb.

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