[U-Boot] Fwd: coreboot uboot qemu x86

Ajoy Das dasajoy80 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 04:21:33 CET 2014


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From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] coreboot uboot qemu x86
To: Ajoy Das <dasajoy80 at gmail.com>
Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>


Hi Ajoy,

On 30 December 2014 at 12:44, Ajoy Das <dasajoy80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ajoy Das <dasajoy80 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] coreboot uboot qemu x86
> To: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
>
>
> Hi Simon
>
> Can i do a gdb on u-boot startup on the coreboot environment.
> means i want to stop at _start in uboot and connect to gdb.
>
> Thanks
> Ajoy
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Ajoy Das <dasajoy80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I tried changing the boot rom size to 2MB.
>> But with no effect
>>
>> coreboot.rom: 2048 kB, bootblocksize 944, romsize 2097152, offset 0x0
>> alignment: 64 bytes, architecture: x86
>>
>> Name                           Offset     Type         Size
>> cmos_layout.bin                0x0        cmos_layout  1160
>> fallback/romstage              0x4c0      stage        17960
>> fallback/ramstage              0x4b40     stage        56190
>> config                         0x12700    raw          2990
>> revision                       0x13300    raw          692
>> (empty)                        0x13600    null         2016728
>>     HOSTCC     cbfstool/rmodtool.o
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ajoy
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ajoy,
>>>
>>> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hi Ajoy,
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>> >> > wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Hi,
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> On 28 December 2014 at 21:38, Ajoy Das <dasajoy80 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> >> >> > Hi
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Need Help
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > I want to run U-BOOT as coreboot payload on QEMU platform
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > I am on uboot-x86 git
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Compiled U-BOOT with make coreboot-x86_defconfig and make all
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Running qemu with
>>> >> >> > qemu-system-i386 -bios ../coreboot/build/coreboot.rom -hda
>>> >> >> > disk.img
>>> >> >> > -nographic -m 1g
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > But The system crashes with the following message
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at
>>> >> >> > 0x5e2a36c2
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000001110000 memsz:
>>> >> >> > 0x00000000000588e8
>>> >> >> > filesz:
>>> >> >> > 0x00000000000252eb
>>> >> >> > lb: [0x0000000000100000, 0x000000000012b030)
>>> >> >> > Post relocation: addr: 0x0000000001110000 memsz:
>>> >> >> > 0x00000000000588e8
>>> >> >> > filesz:
>>> >> >> > 0x00000000000252eb
>>> >> >> > using LZMA
>>> >> >> > [ 0x01110000, 011688e8, 0x011688e8) <- fffd2770
>>> >> >> > dest 01110000, end 011688e8, bouncebuffer 3ff77000
>>> >> >> > Loaded segments
>>> >> >> > Jumping to boot code at 01110015
>>> >> >> > CPU0: stack: 00126000 - 00127000, lowest used address 00126b8c,
>>> >> >> > stack
>>> >> >> > used:
>>> >> >> > 1140 bytes
>>> >> >> > entry    = 0x01110015
>>> >> >> > lb_start = 0x00100000
>>> >> >> > lb_size  = 0x0002b030
>>> >> >> > buffer   = 0x3ff77000
>>> >> >> > qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at
>>> >> >> > 0x5e2a36c2
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > EAX=0000000a EBX=000186a0 ECX=01145d15 EDX=19203eb0
>>> >> >> > ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=01145f6c ESP=01145f54
>>> >> >> > EIP=5e2a36c2 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
>>> >> >> > ES =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA]
>>> >> >> > CS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9b00 DPL=0 CS32 [-RA]
>>> >> >> > SS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA]
>>> >> >> > DS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA]
>>> >> >> > FS =0020 19203f5c ffffffff 00cf9300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA]
>>> >> >> > GS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00cf9300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA]
>>> >> >> > LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT
>>> >> >> > TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy
>>> >> >> > GDT=     19203e60 00000047
>>> >> >> > IDT=     00000000 00000000
>>> >> >> > CR0=60000033 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
>>> >> >> > DR0=00000000 DR1=00000000 DR2=00000000 DR3=00000000
>>> >> >> > DR6=ffff0ff0 DR7=00000400
>>> >> >> > CCS=00000218 CCD=01145f50 CCO=ADDL
>>> >> >> > EFER=0000000000000000
>>> >> >> > FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00001f80
>>> >> >> > FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000
>>> >> >> > FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000
>>> >> >> > FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000
>>> >> >> > FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000
>>> >> >> > XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000
>>> >> >> > Aborted (core dumped)
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > qemu-system-i386 --version
>>> >> >> > QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0), Copyright (c)
2003-2008
>>> >> >> > Fabrice
>>> >> >> > Bellard
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > Is QEMU not supported for coreboot and u-boot
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I'm not sure it's been tried but there's no reason why it should
>>> >> >> work.
>>> >> >> It seems to be crashing in U-Boot before there is any serial
>>> >> >> output.
>>> >> >> Did you put u-boot-dtb.bin as the payload?
>>>
>>> >> On 29 December 2014 at 07:34, Ajoy Das <dasajoy80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> > Hi Simon
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks for your reply
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I have added u-boot ELF as the coreboot payload
>>> >> >
>>> >> > u-boot: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV),
>>> >> > statically linked, not stripped.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Got this link but its a year old.
>>> >> > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-July/159140.html
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks
>>> >> > Ajoy
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> [snip]
>>> >>
>>> >> I suggest using cbfstool add-flat-binary -f u-boot-dtb.bin -n
>>> >> fallback/payload -c lzma -l <text_base> -e <entry>
>>> >>
>>> >> For text_base use CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE which is probably 1110000
>>> >>
>>> >> For entry use _start which is probably 1110015.
>>> >>
>>> >> Of course I'm not sure whether your problem is with Coreboot, U-Boot
>>> >> or qemu, but we'll see.
>>> >>
>>> >> Also, please can you reply to the list with instructions when you get
>>> >> it working, or send a patch to doc/README.x86.
>>>
>>> PLEASE add your reply below mine, not above. I have gone to the
>>> trouble of rearranging the thread for this email.
>>>
>>> Also leave me on Cc otherwise I might not see your reply.
>>>
>>> On 29 December 2014 at 14:31, Ajoy Das <dasajoy80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi Simon
>>> >
>>> > I executed the commands mentioned above. But getting LZMA decode error
>>> > on
>>> > coreboot
>>> >
>>> > coreboot.rom: 256 kB, bootblocksize 944, romsize 262144, offset 0x0
>>> > alignment: 64 bytes, architecture: x86
>>> >
>>> > Name                           Offset     Type         Size
>>> > cmos_layout.bin                0x0        cmos_layout  1160
>>> > fallback/romstage              0x4c0      stage        17960
>>> > fallback/ramstage              0x4b40     stage        56161
>>> > config                         0x12700    raw          2986
>>> > revision                       0x13300    raw          692
>>> > (empty)                        0x13600    null         181720
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ./cbfstool ../../coreboot.rom add-flat-binary
>>> > -v
>>> > -f /home/ajoy/CISCO-2/uboot/u-boot/u-boot-dtb.bin
>>> > -n fallback/payload
>>> > -c lzma
>>> > -l 01110000
>>> > -e 1110015
>>> >
>>> > fallback/payload               0x13600    payload      173965
>>> >     code  (LZMA compression, offset: 0x38, load: 0x49000, length:
>>> > 173909/391062)
>>> >     entry (0x10efff)
>>> > (empty)                        0x3de00    null         7640
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Wrote coreboot table at: 3ffce000, 0x154 bytes, checksum 8ea6
>>> > coreboot table: 364 bytes.
>>> > CBMEM ROOT  0. 3ffff000 00001000
>>> > CAR GLOBALS 1. 3fffe000 00001000
>>> > ROMSTAGE    2. 3fffd000 00001000
>>> > GDT         3. 3fffc000 00001000
>>> > IRQ TABLE   4. 3fffb000 00001000
>>> > ACPI        5. 3ffd7000 00024000
>>> > SMBIOS      6. 3ffd6000 00001000
>>> > COREBOOT    7. 3ffce000 00008000
>>> > CBFS: located payload @ fffd3638, 173965 bytes.
>>> > Loading segment from rom address 0xfffd3638
>>> >   code (compression=1)
>>> >   New segment dstaddr 0x49000 memsize 0x5f796 srcaddr 0xfffd3670
>>> > filesize
>>> > 0x2a755
>>> >   (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x49000 size 0x5f796 offset 0xfffd3670
>>> > filesize 0x2a755
>>> > Loading segment from rom address 0xfffd3654
>>> >   Entry Point 0x0010efff
>>> > Payload being loaded below 1MiB without region being marked as RAM
>>> > usable.
>>> > Bounce Buffer at 3ff77000, 352352 bytes
>>> > Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000049000 memsz: 0x000000000005f796
>>> > filesz:
>>> > 0x000000000002a755
>>> > lb: [0x0000000000100000, 0x000000000012b030)
>>> > Post relocation: addr: 0x0000000000049000 memsz: 0x000000000005f796
>>> > filesz:
>>> > 0x000000000002a755
>>> > using LZMA
>>> > lzma: Decoding error = 1
>>> > Could not load payload
>>>
>>> Do you really have a 256KB ROM? That seems much too small to hold
>>> Coreboot and U-Boot. It looks like U-Boot alone is 173KB.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Simon
>
>
> Hi Simon
>
> I have build tested the same by increasing the ROM size to 2MB but with no
> effect.
> Can I stop (using GDB) at the U-BOOT startup code  after the control is
> transferred from coreboot to u-boot
>
> Any other suggestion

If you are seeing an LZMA decoding error then I doubt that U-Boot is
actually running, since it failed to load. Have you managed to fix
that error?

Regards,
Simon


Hi simon

No I have not fixed the LZMA error.
But I was thinking of the payload as u-boot.elf.
Is u-boot.elf is not the correct payload.

Thanks
Ajoy


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