Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/6] Add the STM32F405 and Netduino Plus 2 machine

[Alistair]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 07:10, Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Now that the Arm-M4 CPU has been added to QEMU we can add the Netduino
> > Plus 2 machine. This is very similar to the STM32F205 and Netduino 2 SoC
> > and machine.
> >
> > v4:
> > - Rebase on master
> > v3:
> > - Remove custom reset handler
> > - Add init-entry and init-sp properties
> > - Rebase on master (including Kconfig changes)
> > v2:
> > - Reorder patchset
> > - Return the kernel entry point instead of using a pointer
> > - Address Peter's comments
> >
> >
> > Alistair Francis (6):
> > armv7m: Allow entry information to be returned
> > target/arm: Allow setting M mode entry and sp
> > hw/misc: Add the STM32F4xx Sysconfig device
> > hw/misc: Add the STM32F4xx EXTI device
> > hw/arm: Add the STM32F4xx SoC
> > hw/arm: Add the Netduino Plus 2
> 
> What are the changes for setting initial SP and PC for?

If it's not set the the guest code jumps into some broken address and crashes 
at boot.

> Why is this SoC special? Is it different from the
> stm32f205 SoC we model already?

>From memory the STM32F205 might have the same issue. It just wasn't a big 
>problem as my STM32F2xx tests were targeting QEMU while the STM32F4xx isn't.

> 
> I'm not in general a fan of individual board models having
> their own custom behaviour for -kernel. The inconsistencies
> between architectures and between A- and M- profile are
> awkward enough as it is...

I do see it as a pain as well, but I'm not sure what else to do to fix it.

Alistair

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
>