Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:12:43 -0400 From: Mitchell Horne <mhorne@freebsd.org> To: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-riscv <freebsd-riscv@freebsd.org>, Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: QEMU 4.1 and RISC-V Message-ID: <CADeAsy0uiLr7=8f9eSBJn-wCSTiZfXr6Ua37Ch7ffTwkSvegqw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKBkRUz_V4Cz%2BHSxsazWJ-i4-J6%2B2qxfHZUgUcJi-bfoEhsSxg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKBkRUw%2BgGKOzU1_JWv_FUx5A9jBnuq0MvQh15Yy9NZ0PKYR9A@mail.gmail.com> <CADeAsy30gdZJa9S7easL6tTry4RrYzDBazx2u2cLtF8TrE9qMw@mail.gmail.com> <CAKBkRUz_V4Cz%2BHSxsazWJ-i4-J6%2B2qxfHZUgUcJi-bfoEhsSxg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 4:56 PM Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:48 PM Mitchell Horne <mhorne@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, 15:17 Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> I found that RISC-V test started failing recently: > >> https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-riscv64-test/ > >> > >> After some checking, I found the issue is our bbl image cannot boot > >> with this command: > >> > >> qemu-system-riscv64 -nographic -m 2048M -kernel ./bbl > >> > >> in QEMU 4.1, while 3.1 and 4.0 are fine. I've switched the QEMU > >> version used in that job to 4.0, but I think it would be best if we > >> can find the root cause is in FreeBSD or QEMU. > >> > >> Can anyone also help on this? > > > > > > Hi Li-Wen, > > > > I can take a look in the coming week if you're okay with the workaround for the time being. Locally > > I've had no issue running bbl with qemu 4.1 but perhaps there's something more specific that the > > CI script is doing. > > > > I'm hoping we will soon be able to replace bbl with the more actively maintained OpenSBI firmware. > > I have some pending changes that will allow us to boot FreeBSD with it, and after that I'd like to > > create ports for both bootloaders, which I hope will make the CI setup a little simpler and less fragile > > than building bbl currently is. > > Thanks very much, Mitchell, > > Let's narrow down the scope, are you using the qemu-devel pkg from > official repository or building by yourself? > This was using qemu that I had built myself, but the executable from qemu-devel works for me as well. > > And can you try this bbl image? > https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/r352870/riscv/riscv64/bbl.xz I had no issue booting this image with my self-built qemu or the one from pkg. The only observable difference from qemu 3.1 is that a warning is printed to stderr, but considering the CI script is timing out I don't think that is the issue. > Best, > Li-Wen
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