Hello Tom! On 2/24/26 8:33 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 07:23:54PM +0000, Johannes Krottmayer wrote:Hello Tom!On 2/24/26 6:09 PM, Tom Rini wrote:On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:26:35AM +0000, Johannes Krottmayer wrote:Hello, I'm tried to compile U-Boot for an QEMU AArch64 environment, but get some error messages in SPL: -- Bloblist at 0 not found (err=-2) alloc space exhausted ptr 400 limit 0 Bloblist at 0 not found (err=-2) U-Boot 2026.01 (Feb 24 2026 - 10:22:15 +0100) [...] -- Started the QEMU instance with the command line: $ qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4G -machine virt -cpu cortex-a53 / bios u-boot.bin $ Also the same errors when I use TF-A and OP-TEE with enabled EL3 and EL2 in QEMU and "u-boot.bin" as BL33. Has somebody noticed the same issue? I used the configuration "qemu_arm64_defconfig"
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That's odd. We run it in CI, but as cortex-a57 not a53 with otherwise similar arguments. Running with TF-A/OP-TEE is also in CI, but more difficult to configure.I have tried it now with the Cortex-A57 but running into the same issue without OP-TEE and TF-A. Using OP-TEE and TF-A works now without the issue because I have forgotten to pass the option TRANSFER_LIST=1 to TF-A and CFG_TRANSFER_LIST=y and CFG_MAP_EXT_DT_SECURE=y to OP-TEE. Host OS: Debian 13 (Trixie) QEMU version: $ qemu-system-aarch64 --version QEMU emulator version 10.0.7 (Debian 1:10.0.7+ds-0+deb13u1+b1) Copyright (c) 2003-2025 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers $ BTW: doc/board/emulation/qemu-arm.rst doesn't mention how to build U-Boot with OP-TEE and TF-A. Should I include the build steps into the docs and create a patch for the doc? I think it's also useful for other users.Yes, some doc updates woul
d be appreciated and please CC the board
maintainers as well. And perhaps the question I forgot to ask earlier is, are you seeing those as fatal errors, or just noting they exist?
My personal opinion: I see the "bloblist not found" personally only as warning. But I think the memory allocation issue should be investigated and maybe fixed, because I think it could have site effects. But I don't know the memory allocation code fully from U-Boot, so therefore the "site effects" is only a guess as normal user. -- Kind regards, Johannes K.
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