Re: [PATCH v3] hw/riscv: virt: Assume M-mode FW in pflash0 only when "-bios none"

[Sunil V L]

Hi Andrea,

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 01:43:28PM +0000, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 11:03:52PM +0530, Sunil V L wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 03:50:34PM +0000, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > First off, the only RISC-V edk2 build readily accessible to me (from
> > > the edk2-riscv64 Fedora package) is configured to work off a R/W
> > > pflash1. You said that you have edk2 patches making R/O CODE pflash0
> > > and R/W VARS pflash1 ready. Any chance you could make either the
> > > build output, or the patches and some hints on how to build edk2
> > > after applying them, somewhere?
> >
> > Please build EDK2 using the branch
> > https://github.com/vlsunil/edk2/tree/separate_code_vars.
> >
> > The instructions to build is in
> > https://github.com/vlsunil/riscv-uefi-edk2-docs/wiki/RISC-V-Qemu-Virt-support#build-edk2
> >
> > However, now it will create two images for code and vars.
> 
> Following your pointers, I was able to build suitable edk2 images and
> verify that they work with a patched QEMU, so
> 
>   Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
> 
> Note, however, that said testing was limited to verifying that edk2
> would come up.
> 
> I have also tried booting an openSUSE Tumbleweed "JeOS" image, since
> that's the only distro I'm aware of that uses UEFI boot on RISC-V at
> this point - though they use U-Boot's UEFI support rather than edk2.
> 
> During that attempt, I ended up in the edk2 shell. Running
> 
>   fs0:\efi\boot\bootriscv64.efi
> 
> brings up GRUB just fine, but selecting the default boot entry
> results in
> 
>   Loading Linux 6.3.2-1-default ...
>   Loading initial ramdisk ...
>   EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
>   EFI stub: Loaded initrd from LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path
>   EFI stub: Generating empty DTB
>   EFI stub: Exiting boot services...
> 
> being printed, after which it's back to OpenSBI and from there to
> edk2 again.
> 
> I feel that this has probably more to do with the way the openSUSE
> image has been built than edk2, but I thought I'd report my
> experience nonetheless in case there's any useful information that
> can be gathered from it :)
> 
Thanks!. Please add -machine acpi=off in qemu command to boot the
kernel.

> > > Going further and testing libvirt integration. After hacking around
> > > other issues, I finally stumbled upon this error:
> > >
> > >   qemu-system-riscv64: Property 'virt-machine.pflash0' not found
> >
> > Thanks!. This needs some investigation. Let me look into supporting
> > this.
> 
> Yes please! It's critical to libvirt integration. Feel free to CC me
> when you post patches and I'll gladly test them.
> 
Sure, I have the fix ready. I need to convert this into a patch series
now. Will send it soon and thanks in advance for helping with testing.

Thanks,
Sunil