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Date:   Fri, 26 May 2023 11:36:18 +0100
From:   Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
To:     Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] selftests/nolibc: allow specify a bios for qemu
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On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 06:25:18PM +0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:

> > On 2023-05-25 01:52:29+0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> > > riscv qemu has a builtin bios (opensbi), but it may not match the lat=
est
> > > kernel and some old versions may hang during boot, let's allow user p=
ass
> > > a newer version to qemu via the -bios option.
> >=20
> > Nitpick:
> >=20
> > This seems very specific and hopefully only necessary temporarily.
> >
>=20
> RISC-V is such a new ISA and the Spec (especially the SBI) changes very
> frequently ;-)


Huh. Could you please expand on which versions of QEMU will hang while
booting an upstream or stable kernel? Which kernels would be good to
know too.

Thanks,
Conor.

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