The overhead for the OpenBMC firmware images using the a custom U-Boot
is around 2 seconds, which is fine, but with a U-Boot from mainline,
it takes an extra 50 seconds or so to reach Linux. A quick survey on
the number of reads performed on the flash memory region gives the
following figures :
OpenBMC U-Boot 922478 (~ 3.5 MBytes)
Mainline U-Boot 20569977 (~ 80 MBytes)
QEMU must be trashing the TCG TBs and reloading text very often. Some
addresses are read more than 250.000 times. Until we find a solution
to improve boot time, execution from MMIO is not activated by default.
Setting this option also breaks migration compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200114103433.30534-5-clg@kaod.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
AspeedBoardConfig is a redundant way to define class attributes and it
complexifies the machine definition and initialization.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Message-id: 20191119141211.25716-14-clg@kaod.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Message-id: 20191023130455.1347-3-clg@kaod.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
We currently use Qemu's default of 128MB. As we know how much ram each
machine ships with, make it easier on users by setting a default.
It can still be overridden with -m on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20190503022958.1394-1-joel@jms.id.au
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The code looks better, it removes duplicated lines and it will ease
the introduction of common properties for the Aspeed machines.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-id: 20180921161939.822-4-clg@kaod.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
