Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM documentation

[Programmingkid]

On Nov 18, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Programmingkid wrote:

> 
> On Nov 18, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Alistair Francis wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:53 AM, G 3 <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Nov 11, 2016, at 11:31 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> G 3 <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 11, 2016, at 8:27 AM, G 3 wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 11, 2016, at 8:08 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:09:31AM -0500, G 3 wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Alex Bennée
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your help. Is this what should be used:
>>> 
>>> 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>
>>> 
>>> 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
> 
> This is the master list of platform documentation: 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms
> 
> It currently doesn't list Xilinx or Netduino, but that can always be changed.
> 
> This will be a good place to start an Xilinx page:
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/Xilinx
> 
> Here for Netduino:
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/Netduino
> 
> Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Oops. I didn't realize that Xilinx and Netduino were ARM boards and not 
something else. You would want to place such documentation on the ARM page:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM