[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 2/4] boot/opensbi: new package

[Alistair Francis]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:57 AM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Mark,
>
> Thanks for the heads-up!

I am on holidays for the next few days so I won't be able to send any
more patches until next week.

>
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:36:22 +0000
> Mark Corbin <mark.corbin at embecosm.com> wrote:
>
> > a) commit 'allow BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE on RISC-V'
> > (a3a4d4d4d307fd21f19ae43e77ac21b85adad7f2) is causing riscv builds to
> > fail for the existing qemu defconfigs because OpenSBI hasn't been added
> > yet and riscv-pk expects a 'vmlinux' file.
>
> This one should be fixed by adding:
>
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VMLINUX=y
>
> in the defconfig.

I didn't realise that enabling Image would change the default.

>
> > b) commit 'configs/qemu_riscv32_virt: upgrade to 4.20 kernel'
> > (e92d5624236e47e1abe44f2ace24fceb1882c0a5) results in a kernel that
> > won't boot with QEMU due to lack of OpenSBI and/or required kernel
> > configuration updates.
>
> Which configuration updates are needed ? The ones that Alistair was
> pushing ? If they were need for the 4.20 bump to work, then they should
> have been part of the same commit :-/

Sorry about this. I tested them with a custom config that wasn't
commuted in the same patch.

>
> Anyway, Alistair has been respinning his series very frequently, so I
> assume we can get the remainder of the work merged very soon.

Are there any comments on the latest series? Or can they be merged to fix this.

Alistair

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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