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| author | Jamin Lin <jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com> | 2025-04-24 15:51:34 +0800 |
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| committer | Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com> | 2025-05-05 09:38:55 +0200 |
| commit | d2b857ef9a997237ebedda53c3db50b264baf4fc (patch) | |
| tree | 98272a185da82a34dbfec2b1abd29e877e7a464c | |
| parent | 3eb01cfe9b85cd64255f6ef93346a3de17fa9632 (diff) | |
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docs/system/arm/aspeed: Support vbootrom for AST2700
Using the vbootrom image support and the boot ROM binary is
now passed via the -bios option, using the image located in
pc-bios/ast27x0_bootrom.bin.
Signed-off-by: Jamin Lin <jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Nabih Estefan <nabihestefan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250424075135.3715128-7-jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst | 29 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst index 08a33b7..014545f 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst @@ -306,7 +306,14 @@ Images can be downloaded from the ASPEED Forked OpenBMC GitHub release repositor Booting the ast2700-evb machine ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image, use an MTD drive : +Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image. + +There are two supported methods for booting the AST2700 machine with a flash image: + +Manual boot using ``-device loader``: + +It causes all 4 CPU cores to start execution from address ``0x430000000``, which +corresponds to the BL31 image load address. .. code-block:: bash @@ -326,6 +333,26 @@ Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image, use an MTD drive : -drive file=${IMGDIR}/image-bmc,format=raw,if=mtd \ -nographic +Boot using a virtual boot ROM (``-bios``): + +If users do not specify the ``-bios option``, QEMU will attempt to load the +default vbootrom image ``ast27x0_bootrom.bin`` from either the current working +directory or the ``pc-bios`` directory within the QEMU source tree. + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M ast2700-evb \ + -drive file=image-bmc,format=raw,if=mtd \ + -nographic + +The ``-bios`` option allows users to specify a custom path for the vbootrom +image to be loaded during boot. This will load the vbootrom image from the +specified path in the ${HOME} directory. + +.. code-block:: bash + + -bios ${HOME}/ast27x0_bootrom.bin + Aspeed minibmc family boards (``ast1030-evb``) ================================================================== |