Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM documentation

[Alistair Francis]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:53 AM, G 3 <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2016, at 11:31 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
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>> G 3 <address@hidden> writes:
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>>> On Nov 11, 2016, at 8:27 AM, G 3 wrote:
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>>>> On Nov 11, 2016, at 8:08 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
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>>>>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:09:31AM -0500, G 3 wrote:
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>>>>>> I was wondering if there is a list somewhere of all the ARM
>>>>>> boards QEMU
>>>>>> supports. I want to add a section to the ARM wiki page that lists
>>>>>> at least a
>>>>>> few of them.
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>>>>>
>>>>> Are you looking for something more detailed than the following?
>>>>>
>>>>> $ arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M \?
>>>>> Supported machines are:
>>>>> akita                Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> ast2500-evb          Aspeed AST2500 EVB (ARM1176)
>>>>> borzoi               Sharp SL-C3100 (Borzoi) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> canon-a1100          Canon PowerShot A1100 IS
>>>>> cheetah              Palm Tungsten|E aka. Cheetah PDA (OMAP310)
>>>>> collie               Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110)
>>>>> connex               Gumstix Connex (PXA255)
>>>>> cubieboard           cubietech cubieboard
>>>>> highbank             Calxeda Highbank (ECX-1000)
>>>>> imx25-pdk            ARM i.MX25 PDK board (ARM926)
>>>>> integratorcp         ARM Integrator/CP (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> kzm                  ARM KZM Emulation Baseboard (ARM1136)
>>>>> lm3s6965evb          Stellaris LM3S6965EVB
>>>>> lm3s811evb           Stellaris LM3S811EVB
>>>>> mainstone            Mainstone II (PXA27x)
>>>>> midway               Calxeda Midway (ECX-2000)
>>>>> musicpal             Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> n800                 Nokia N800 tablet aka. RX-34 (OMAP2420)
>>>>> n810                 Nokia N810 tablet aka. RX-44 (OMAP2420)
>>>>> netduino2            Netduino 2 Machine
>>>>> none                 empty machine
>>>>> nuri                 Samsung NURI board (Exynos4210)
>>>>> palmetto-bmc         OpenPOWER Palmetto BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> raspi2               Raspberry Pi 2
>>>>> realview-eb          ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> realview-eb-mpcore   ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM11MPCore)
>>>>> realview-pb-a8       ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8
>>>>> realview-pbx-a9      ARM RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for
>>>>> Cortex-A9
>>>>> sabrelite            Freescale i.MX6 Quad SABRE Lite Board (Cortex
>>>>> A9)
>>>>> smdkc210             Samsung SMDKC210 board (Exynos4210)
>>>>> spitz                Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> sx1                  Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2
>>>>> sx1-v1               Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1
>>>>> terrier              Sharp SL-C3200 (Terrier) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> tosa                 Sharp SL-6000 (Tosa) PDA (PXA255)
>>>>> verdex               Gumstix Verdex (PXA270)
>>>>> versatileab          ARM Versatile/AB (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> versatilepb          ARM Versatile/PB (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> vexpress-a15         ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A15
>>>>> vexpress-a9          ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9
>>>>> virt-2.6             QEMU 2.6 ARM Virtual Machine
>>>>> virt-2.7             QEMU 2.7 ARM Virtual Machine
>>>>> virt                 QEMU 2.8 ARM Virtual Machine (alias of virt-2.8)
>>>>> virt-2.8             QEMU 2.8 ARM Virtual Machine
>>>>> xilinx-zynq-a9       Xilinx Zynq Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A9
>>>>> z2                   Zipit Z2 (PXA27x)
>>>>>
>>>>> $ aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M \?
>>>>> Supported machines are:
>>>>> akita                Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> ast2500-evb          Aspeed AST2500 EVB (ARM1176)
>>>>> borzoi               Sharp SL-C3100 (Borzoi) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> canon-a1100          Canon PowerShot A1100 IS
>>>>> cheetah              Palm Tungsten|E aka. Cheetah PDA (OMAP310)
>>>>> collie               Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110)
>>>>> connex               Gumstix Connex (PXA255)
>>>>> cubieboard           cubietech cubieboard
>>>>> highbank             Calxeda Highbank (ECX-1000)
>>>>> imx25-pdk            ARM i.MX25 PDK board (ARM926)
>>>>> integratorcp         ARM Integrator/CP (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> kzm                  ARM KZM Emulation Baseboard (ARM1136)
>>>>> lm3s6965evb          Stellaris LM3S6965EVB
>>>>> lm3s811evb           Stellaris LM3S811EVB
>>>>> mainstone            Mainstone II (PXA27x)
>>>>> midway               Calxeda Midway (ECX-2000)
>>>>> musicpal             Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> n800                 Nokia N800 tablet aka. RX-34 (OMAP2420)
>>>>> n810                 Nokia N810 tablet aka. RX-44 (OMAP2420)
>>>>> netduino2            Netduino 2 Machine
>>>>> none                 empty machine
>>>>> nuri                 Samsung NURI board (Exynos4210)
>>>>> palmetto-bmc         OpenPOWER Palmetto BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> raspi2               Raspberry Pi 2
>>>>> realview-eb          ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> realview-eb-mpcore   ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM11MPCore)
>>>>> realview-pb-a8       ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8
>>>>> realview-pbx-a9      ARM RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for
>>>>> Cortex-A9
>>>>> sabrelite            Freescale i.MX6 Quad SABRE Lite Board (Cortex
>>>>> A9)
>>>>> smdkc210             Samsung SMDKC210 board (Exynos4210)
>>>>> spitz                Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> sx1                  Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2
>>>>> sx1-v1               Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1
>>>>> terrier              Sharp SL-C3200 (Terrier) PDA (PXA270)
>>>>> tosa                 Sharp SL-6000 (Tosa) PDA (PXA255)
>>>>> verdex               Gumstix Verdex (PXA270)
>>>>> versatileab          ARM Versatile/AB (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> versatilepb          ARM Versatile/PB (ARM926EJ-S)
>>>>> vexpress-a15         ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A15
>>>>> vexpress-a9          ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9
>>>>> virt-2.6             QEMU 2.6 ARM Virtual Machine
>>>>> virt-2.7             QEMU 2.7 ARM Virtual Machine
>>>>> virt                 QEMU 2.8 ARM Virtual Machine (alias of virt-2.8)
>>>>> virt-2.8             QEMU 2.8 ARM Virtual Machine
>>>>> xilinx-zynq-a9       Xilinx Zynq Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A9
>>>>> xlnx-ep108           Xilinx ZynqMP EP108 board
>>>>> xlnx-zcu102          Xilinx ZynqMP ZCU102 board
>>>>> z2                   Zipit Z2 (PXA27x)
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>>> They have been added to the wiki.
>>>
>>> Does this look right as the suggested command-line arguments:
>>> qemu-system-aarch64 -m <memory size> -M <machine name> -drive
>>> if=none,file=<hard drive file name>,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-
>>> device,drive=hd0 -netdev type=tap,id=net0 -device virtio-net-
>>> device,netdev=net0
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>> Using virtio devices really only applies to the -M virt machine types.
>> All the other device types are modelling real hardware with various
>> specific block devices.
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>> Generally you boot system emulation with a kernel (and maybe an initrd)
>> as their is no BIOS to boot stuff for you. Modern ARM systems (by which
>> I mean virt) can be booted with an EFI BIOS (-bios QEMU_EFI.fd) which
>> will then figure out the best place to boot from and can load the kernel
>> themselves.
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>> --
>> Alex Bennée
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> Thank you for your help. Is this what should be used:
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> qemu-system-aarch64 -m <memory size> -M <machine name> -drive
> if=none,file=<hard drive file name>,id=hd0 -kernel <kernel file> -initrd
> <initrd file>
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> Given there are so many ARM boards, having more sample command-lines
> would be more helpful to the user.

A lot of the information about the command lines are maintained out of
tree. You can look at how Yocto starts up these machines for examples
on it.

I think an example for machines would be really useful. If you have a
central place you would like to add them let me know and I'll add
examples (and images if you want) for Xilinx and Netduino boards.

Thanks,

Alistair

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