From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Delivery-date: Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:16 +0200 Received: from metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:2:b01:1d::104]) by lore.white.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1wSKeq-004V5S-26 for lore@lore.pengutronix.de; Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:16 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de) by metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1wSKeq-0004zp-6O; Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:16 +0200 Received: from drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:0:c01:1d::a2]) by metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1wSKem-0004za-7I; Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:12 +0200 Received: from pty.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:2:b01:1d::c5]) by drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1wSKel-002A7f-1w; Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:12 +0200 Received: from rsc by pty.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wSKem-00000001HE6-0L6A; Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:12 +0200 Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:12 +0200 From: Robert Schwebel To: Ahmad Fatoum Message-ID: References: <20260526193736.288664-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260526193736.288664-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> X-Sent-From: Pengutronix Hildesheim X-URL: http://www.pengutronix.de/ X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Accept-Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [DistroKit] [PATCH 0/9] v7a: vexpress: Switch from vexpress-a9 to virt X-BeenThere: distrokit@pengutronix.de X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DistroKit Mailinglist List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: distrokit@pengutronix.de Sender: "DistroKit" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: distrokit-bounces@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false applied series. On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 09:36:41PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > The Vexpress support added to DistroKit was explicitly added for use > with QEMU. barebox has rudimentary support for the Vexpress, but it has > since been overshadowed by the more extensive support for the QEMU Virt > platform. > > barebox commit 8a7a891c5d35 ("clk: vexpress: clk-sp810: sync with Linux"), > first included with v2026.01.0 fixed a possible crash for vexpress-a15 > by synchronizing the Vexpress/Versatile clock driver against the > upstream version in Linux. > > A side effect of this is that the clock on the vexpress-a9, which we are > using, is now twice as fast, so sleep 10 in barebox takes 5 seconds instead. > > There is a Github issue[1] to address this regression, but until that's > resolved, we need to restore things to working order here. > > Let's use the occasion for some cleanup and switch over fully to Virt. > This also has the advantage that this is similar to how we would > likely implement the run command for v8 as well. > > Ahmad Fatoum (9): > v7a: rauc: fix /dev/disk/by-usage symlinks for FairyTux 2 > v7a: vexpress: do not save environment on missing-bootsource > datapartition: fix regex for virtualized block devices > v7a: delete non-functional run-nfs > v7a: run: drop non-functional scsi option > v7a: vexpress: drop non-functional 9p boot target > v7a: vexpress: Switch from vexpress-a9 to virt > v7a: run: do not shutdown on reboot > Revert "platform-v7a: vexpress: use only one core for barebox" > > .../init/missing-bootsource | 5 +- > .../match.of_compatible/arm,vexpress/boot/9p | 10 -- > .../linux,dummy-virt/boot/qemu-virt.root-A | 4 + > .../linux,dummy-virt/boot/qemu-virt.root-B | 4 + > configs/platform-v7a/barebox.config | 25 ++++- > .../config/images/vexpress-nor.config | 8 +- > configs/platform-v7a/kernelconfig | 13 ++- > configs/platform-v7a/platformconfig | 2 +- > configs/platform-v7a/qemu-common | 92 ------------------- > .../rules/image-vexpress-nor.make | 4 - > configs/platform-v7a/run | 52 +++-------- > configs/platform-v7a/run-nfs | 20 ---- > projectroot/etc/rc.once.d/repart | 2 +- > .../lib/udev/rules.d/90-rauc-partitions.rules | 4 +- > 14 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 configs/platform-v7a/barebox-defaultenv/match.of_compatible/arm,vexpress/boot/9p > create mode 100644 configs/platform-v7a/barebox-defaultenv/match.of_compatible/linux,dummy-virt/boot/qemu-virt.root-A > create mode 100755 configs/platform-v7a/barebox-defaultenv/match.of_compatible/linux,dummy-virt/boot/qemu-virt.root-B > delete mode 100755 configs/platform-v7a/qemu-common > delete mode 100755 configs/platform-v7a/run-nfs > > -- > 2.47.3 > > > -- Pengutronix e.K. | Dipl.-Ing. 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