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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] RISC-V Updates for the 4.19 Merge Window
To:     Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>
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On 08/19/2018 12:26 AM, Karsten Merker wrote:
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>> However, the she system boots fine with the same qemu command line if I use qemu
>> built from https://github.com/riscv/riscv-qemu.git, branch qemu-for-upstream.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> AFAICS the qemu patch that adds support for handling separate bbl
> and kernel images, i.e.
> 
>    https://github.com/riscv/riscv-qemu/commit/6338416ecf4717197c635b5abf9c17465d2d0da0
> 
> hasn't yet made it into upstream qemu, so using the "-bios"
> option for bbl generally doesn't work with (upstream) qemu 3.0.
> 

You are correct. With qemu 3.0+commit b79cd8dec5 ("RISC-V: Support separate firmware
and kernel payload") and this pull request plus "riscv: Drop setup_initrd" on top
of mainline, my test passes:

Build reference: riscv-for-linus-4.19-mw0-8897-gd028021652dd

Building virt:defconfig:initrd ... running .... passed
Building virt:defconfig:virtio-blk:rootfs ... running .... passed

... giving this an official

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Guenter