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Alex Bennée |
Subject: |
[PULL 16/16] docs/system: document an example booting the versatilepb machine |
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Mon, 8 Feb 2021 12:38:21 +0000 |
There is a bit more out there including Aurelien's excellent write up
and older Debian images here:
https://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php
https://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/
However the web is transitory and git is forever so lets add something
to the fine manual.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Message-Id: <20210202134001.25738-16-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst b/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst
index 51221c30a4..2ae792bac3 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst
@@ -27,3 +27,37 @@ The Arm Versatile baseboard is emulated with the following
devices:
devices.
- PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.
+
+Booting a Linux kernel
+----------------------
+
+Building a current Linux kernel with ``versatile_defconfig`` should be
+enough to get something running. Nowadays an out-of-tree build is
+recommended (and also useful if you build a lot of different targets).
+In the following example $BLD points to the build directory and $SRC
+points to the root of the Linux source tree. You can drop $SRC if you
+are running from there.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ make O=$BLD -C $SRC ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
versatile_defconfig
+ $ make O=$BLD -C $SRC ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
+
+You may want to enable some additional modules if you want to boot
+something from the SCSI interface::
+
+ CONFIG_PCI=y
+ CONFIG_PCI_VERSATILE=y
+ CONFIG_SCSI=y
+ CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y
+
+You can then boot with a command line like:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-arm -machine type=versatilepb \
+ -serial mon:stdio \
+ -drive if=scsi,driver=file,filename=debian-buster-armel-rootfs.ext4 \
+ -kernel zImage \
+ -dtb versatile-pb.dtb \
+ -append "console=ttyAMA0 ro root=/dev/sda"
--
2.20.1
- [PULL 08/16] configure: make version_ge more tolerant of shady version input, (continued)
- [PULL 08/16] configure: make version_ge more tolerant of shady version input, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 03/16] tests/docker: Fix typo in help message, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 12/16] tests/tcg: Replace /bin/true by true (required on macOS), Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 07/16] tests/docker: add a docker-exec-copy-test, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 06/16] tests/docker: alias docker-help target for consistency, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 13/16] scripts/mtest2make.py: export all-%s-targets variable and use it, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 01/16] tests/acceptance: Increase the timeout in the replay tests, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 10/16] tests/tcg: don't silently skip the gdb tests, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 09/16] configure: bump the minimum gdb version for check-tcg to 9.1, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 15/16] docs/system: document an example vexpress-a15 invocation, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- [PULL 16/16] docs/system: document an example booting the versatilepb machine,
Alex Bennée <=
- [PULL 14/16] tests/Makefile.include: don't use TARGET_DIRS for check-tcg, Alex Bennée, 2021/02/08
- Re: [PULL 00/16] testing, gdbstub and doc tweaks, Peter Maydell, 2021/02/08