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| author | Stefan Hajnoczi | 2022-09-06 00:01:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefan Hajnoczi | 2022-09-06 00:01:02 +0200 |
| commit | fd28528ece590dc709d1a893fce2ff2f68ddca70 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e7235fb2cae6d8fa14dc8e4d9ff27b04de03fae /docs/system/openrisc/virt.rst | |
| parent | Merge tag 'for-upstream' of https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu into staging (diff) | |
| parent | docs/system: openrisc: Add OpenRISC documentation (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'pull-or1k-20220904' of https://github.com/stffrdhrn/qemu into staging
OpenRISC updates for 7.2.0
Updates to add the OpenRISC virt plaform to QEMU. Highlights
include:
- New virt plaform with, virtio and pci bus support
- OpenRISC support for MTTCG
- Goldfish RTC device endianness is configurable now
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* tag 'pull-or1k-20220904' of https://github.com/stffrdhrn/qemu:
docs/system: openrisc: Add OpenRISC documentation
hw/openrisc: virt: pass random seed to fdt
target/openrisc: Interrupt handling fixes
target/openrisc: Enable MTTCG
target/openrisc: Add interrupted CPU to log
hw/openrisc: Initialize timer time at startup
hw/openrisc: Add PCI bus support to virt
hw/openrisc: Add the OpenRISC virtual machine
goldfish_rtc: Add big-endian property
target/openrisc: Fix memory reading in debugger
hw/openrisc: Split re-usable boot time apis out to boot.c
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/system/openrisc/virt.rst b/docs/system/openrisc/virt.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2fe61ac942 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/system/openrisc/virt.rst @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +'virt' generic virtual platform +=============================== + +The ``virt`` board is a platform which does not correspond to any +real hardware; it is designed for use in virtual machines. +It is the recommended board type if you simply want to run +a guest such as Linux and do not care about reproducing the +idiosyncrasies and limitations of a particular bit of real-world +hardware. + +Supported devices +----------------- + + * PCI/PCIe devices + * 8 virtio-mmio transport devices + * 16550A UART + * Goldfish RTC + * SiFive Test device for poweroff and reboot + * SMP (OpenRISC multicore using ompic) + +Boot options +------------ + +The virt machine can be started using the ``-kernel`` and ``-initrd`` options +to load a Linux kernel and optional disk image. For example: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ qemu-system-or1k -cpu or1220 -M or1k-sim -nographic \ + -device virtio-net-device,netdev=user -netdev user,id=user,net=10.9.0.1/24,host=10.9.0.100 \ + -device virtio-blk-device,drive=d0 -drive file=virt.qcow2,id=d0,if=none,format=qcow2 \ + -kernel vmlinux \ + -initrd initramfs.cpio.gz \ + -m 128 + +Linux guest kernel configuration +"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" + +The 'virt_defconfig' for Linux openrisc kernels includes the right drivers for +the ``virt`` machine. + +Hardware configuration information +"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" + +The ``virt`` board automatically generates a device tree blob ("dtb") which it +passes to the guest. This provides information about the addresses, interrupt +lines and other configuration of the various devices in the system. + +The location of the DTB will be passed in register ``r3`` to the guest operating +system. |
