configs/qemu_sh4-r2d: restore the old sh-sci driver behaviour
authorRomain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:25:31 +0000 (13:25 +0200)
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Sun, 5 Aug 2018 12:46:21 +0000 (14:46 +0200)
commitf7a887c3682282a281206bca61724a750c326b3d
tree3e4cf157a4d3d020dc74d36f8f7f79b5f2c8820b
parent52385d789af0d17bf12406e5c028651ccbd841f0
configs/qemu_sh4-r2d: restore the old sh-sci driver behaviour

This reverts commit 18e8cf159177100e69d528293f8cf6875c0b1bca (kernel)

The last Qemu kernel update [1] introduced a regresion in sh4 SCIF
serial device. Some keyboard presses are very slow to be taken into
account, perhaps not even taken into account at all. This would
explain why our test infrastructure doesn’t manage to login as root
[2][3][4].

git bisect reported a kernel patch from 4.11, increasing RX FIFO
trigger defaults value for sh-sci (H)SCIF. The kernel patch itself
looks good but the Qemu emulation is not ready to handle this new
setting.

>From Qemu (2.12.0): target/sh4/README.sh4
"Configuration of the second serial port (SCIF) is supported. FIFO
handling infrastructure has been started but is not completed yet."

We can't use the first serial port (ttySC0) because it's the second
SH UART that's emulated by Qemu.

In order to be able to test sh4 architecture with newer kernel,
revert to the old behaviour.

[1] 03fb00f2175cdb4565e26fcb9b3da1c1059de1bd
[2] https://gitlab.com/free-electrons/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/72006425
[3] https://gitlab.com/free-electrons/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/72006427
[4] https://gitlab.com/free-electrons/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/72006426

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0001-Revert-serial-sh-sci-increase-RX-FIFO-trigger-defaul.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
configs/qemu_sh4_r2d_defconfig