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Arm Versatile Express boards (``vexpress-a9``, ``vexpress-a15``)
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QEMU models two variants of the Arm Versatile Express development
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board family:
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- ``vexpress-a9`` models the combination of the Versatile Express
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motherboard and the CoreTile Express A9x4 daughterboard
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- ``vexpress-a15`` models the combination of the Versatile Express
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motherboard and the CoreTile Express A15x2 daughterboard
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Note that as this hardware does not have PCI, IDE or SCSI,
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the only available storage option is emulated SD card.
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Implemented devices:
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- PL041 audio
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- PL181 SD controller
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- PL050 keyboard and mouse
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- PL011 UARTs
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- SP804 timers
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- I2C controller
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- PL031 RTC
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- PL111 LCD display controller
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- Flash memory
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- LAN9118 ethernet
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Unimplemented devices:
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- SP810 system control block
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- PCI-express
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- USB controller (Philips ISP1761)
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- Local DAP ROM
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- CoreSight interfaces
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- PL301 AXI interconnect
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- SCC
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- System counter
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- HDLCD controller (``vexpress-a15``)
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- SP805 watchdog
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- PL341 dynamic memory controller
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- DMA330 DMA controller
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- PL354 static memory controller
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- BP147 TrustZone Protection Controller
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- TrustZone Address Space Controller
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Other differences between the hardware and the QEMU model:
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- QEMU will default to creating one CPU unless you pass a different
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``-smp`` argument
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- QEMU allows the amount of RAM provided to be specified with the
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``-m`` argument
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- QEMU defaults to providing a CPU which does not provide either
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TrustZone or the Virtualization Extensions: if you want these you
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must enable them with ``-machine secure=on`` and ``-machine
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virtualization=on``
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- QEMU provides 4 virtio-mmio virtio transports; these start at
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address ``0x10013000`` for ``vexpress-a9`` and at ``0x1c130000`` for
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``vexpress-a15``, and have IRQs from 40 upwards. If a dtb is
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provided on the command line then QEMU will edit it to include
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suitable entries describing these transports for the guest.
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Booting a Linux kernel
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Building a current Linux kernel with ``multi_v7_defconfig`` should be
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enough to get something running. Nowadays an out-of-tree build is
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recommended (and also useful if you build a lot of different targets).
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In the following example $BLD points to the build directory and $SRC
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points to the root of the Linux source tree. You can drop $SRC if you
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are running from there.
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ make O=$BLD -C $SRC ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- multi_v7_defconfig
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$ make O=$BLD -C $SRC ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
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By default you will want to boot your rootfs off the sdcard interface.
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Your rootfs will need to be padded to the right size. With a suitable
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DTB you could also add devices to the virtio-mmio bus.
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ qemu-system-arm -cpu cortex-a15 -smp 4 -m 4096 \
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-machine type=vexpress-a15 -serial mon:stdio \
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-drive if=sd,driver=file,filename=armel-rootfs.ext4 \
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-kernel zImage \
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-dtb vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dtb \
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-append "console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/mmcblk0 ro"
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