Re: [PATCH 0/5] hw/arm/exynos4210: Add acceptance tests to the SMDKC210 board

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 05:47:43PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday Peter Maydell asked on IRC if I had any working Exynos4
> image. I looked at some old backuped notes and could boot Guenter
> initrd with BusyBox.
> I'll use this cover letter to share my notes, they might help to
> have this board fully usable again.
> 
> This board is listed as "Odd Fixes". Since we have it covered, I
> thought it was worthwhile to have it covered by tests to avoid
> more regressions.
> 
> Frédéric Basse used this board last year:
> https://fredericb.info/2018/03/emulating-exynos-4210-bootrom-in-qemu.html
> 
> I'll have a look a these particular commits he added:
> 
> - https://github.com/frederic/qemu-exynos-bootrom/commit/9be5c9f2253dbc04ee
> 
>    sd: add sd clock support to SDHC_CLKCON
> 
> - https://github.com/frederic/qemu-exynos-bootrom/commit/6f045949ee2fdec624
> 
>    sd: always reply to ACMD41 (SD_APP_OP_COND)
> 
> Guenter also carries on this patch:
> 
> - https://github.com/groeck/qemu/commit/0a80543cc910d
> 
>   hw/timer/exynos4210_mct: Initialize timer before starting it
> 
>   When booting a recent Linux kernel, the qemu message "Timer with period
>   zero, disabling" is seen, apparently because a timer is started before
>   being initialized.  Fix the problem by initializing the offending timer
>   before starting it.
> 
> It might also be interesting to use Krzysztof's initramfs image:
> https://github.com/krzk/tools/blob/master/run-qemu.sh#L29

I haven't been working on QEMU since 2 years but I can try to find that
initramfs image.

The recent initramfs I create, is for testing kernel under my Buildbot.
I take standard initramfs from Arch ARM and then I add some more stuff:
Source/instruction is here:
https://github.com/krzk/tools/tree/master/buildbot/initramfs
and the script making it for each boot is here:
https://github.com/krzk/tools/blob/master/buildbot/build-slave-deploy.sh#L50
https://github.com/krzk/tools/blob/master/pi/make-initramfs.sh

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> 
> The 1st test added works fine, however the 2nd (SD card) is not
> reliable so it is disabled. We might need to adapt the ADMA patch
> Igor sent once:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/181854/
> 
> If you want to run the Avocado tests, you need these other patches
> pending review:
> 
> - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-09/msg06439.html
>   "tests/boot_linux_console: Extract the gunzip() helper"
> 
> - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-09/msg06438.html
>   "python/qemu/machine: Allow to use other serial consoles than default"
>   (only for the 2nd disabled test)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> Based-on: address@hidden
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (5):
>   tests/boot_linux_console: Add initrd test for the Exynos4210
>   hw/sd/sdhci: Add a comment to distinct the i.MX eSDHC functions
>   hw/sd/sdhci: Add dummy Samsung SDHCI controller
>   hw/arm/exynos4210: Use the Samsung s3c SDHCI controller
>   tests/boot_linux_console: Add sdcard test for the Exynos4210
> 
>  hw/arm/exynos4210.c                    |  2 +-
>  hw/sd/sdhci.c                          | 68 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/hw/sd/sdhci.h                  |  2 +
>  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
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