From 9d5dcb8512098ac9dd5ee20f065ac516942d4a26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Stanley Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:57:51 +0800 Subject: docs: aspeed: Give an example of booting a kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A common use case for the ASPEED machine is to boot a Linux kernel. Provide a full example command line. Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley Message-id: 20211117065752.330632-4-joel@jms.id.au Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell --- docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst index b87697f..6aafd61 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst @@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ Missing devices Boot options ------------ -The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` option to -load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from -the OpenBMC jenkins : +The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` and ``-dtb`` options +to load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from the +OpenBMC jenkins : https://jenkins.openbmc.org/job/ci-openbmc/lastSuccessfulBuild/ @@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ or directly from the OpenBMC GitHub release repository : https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/releases +To boot a kernel directly from a Linux build tree: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb -nographic \ + -kernel arch/arm/boot/zImage \ + -dtb arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-ast2600-evb.dtb \ + -initrd rootfs.cpio + The image should be attached as an MTD drive. Run : .. code-block:: bash -- cgit v1.1