Re: [PATCH] aspeed: Add an AST2600 eval board

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 22/10/2019 18:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 14:54, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 07:33, Joel Stanley <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 09:08, Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Define the board with 1 GiB of RAM but some boards can have up to 2
>>>> GiB.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <address@hidden>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>  Changes since AST2600 patchset:
>>>>
>>>>  - lowered the RAM size to 1 GiB as it was breaking the tests on some
>>>>    hosts.
>>>
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> After chatting with Cédric I agree we should merge this patch.
>>>
>>> As it turns out the EVBs have differing amounts of RAM; his has 1GB
>>> while mine has 2GB. So we are not being inaccurate by setting 1GB as
>>> the default here.
>>
>> That's convenient, means we don't have to figure out how to
>> special-case the test infrastructure for it :-)
> 
> This is now OK on the 32-bit boxes, but still fails 'make check'
> on my OSX system:
> 
> manooth$ QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64
> tests/qom-test -p /aarch64/qom/ast2600-evb
> /aarch64/qom/ast2600-evb: Broken pipe
> /Users/pm215/src/qemu-for-merges/tests/libqtest.c:149: kill_qemu()
> detected QEMU death from signal 6 (Abort trap: 6)
> Abort trap: 6
> 
> Dropping from the pullreq again :-(

It will be back !


Is it time for me to install an OSX system for dev and tests or is there 
a way to reproduce the issue ? no errors spotted in valgrind.

Thanks,

C.