Re: [Qemu-devel] can we update QEMU's version of u-boot.e500 ?

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 05:22, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 12:44:59AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 03.01.19 18:38, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > Hi; currently we ship with a u-boot.e500 which is from u-boot
> > > v2017.07. It would be nice to move that forward, specifically
> > > to at least v2017.11, which contains upstream u-boot's part of the
> > > fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1714750 .
> > > (There are more recent releases than that; it's just the first
> > > that contains the fix.)
> > >
> > > Then we could remove the workaround in scripts/make-release and
> > > close out the bug.
> > >
> > > I've cc'd David as the current maintainer of pc-bios/u-boot.e500
> > > and Alex as the last person who did an update.
> >
> > I think it's a great idea to update it.
> >
> > David, do you want to do that or rather have me send a patch?
>
> Please send a patch.
>
> I'm maintainer of all the ppc boards by default, but I really don't
> know anything much about e500 or u-boot.

Hi -- any progress on this ? It would be nice to update the u-boot
blob before QEMU hits softfreeze for the next release in a
couple of weeks...

thanks
-- PMM