[PATCH v8 01/32] arm: qemu: Mention -nographic in the docs

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Dec 17 04:59:08 CET 2021


Without this option QEMU appears to hang. Add it to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
---

(no changes since v1)

 doc/board/emulation/qemu-arm.rst | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/board/emulation/qemu-arm.rst b/doc/board/emulation/qemu-arm.rst
index 584ef0a7e15..8bd7b60cdb4 100644
--- a/doc/board/emulation/qemu-arm.rst
+++ b/doc/board/emulation/qemu-arm.rst
@@ -41,14 +41,15 @@ The minimal QEMU command line to get U-Boot up and running is:
 
 - For ARM::
 
-    qemu-system-arm -machine virt -bios u-boot.bin
+    qemu-system-arm -machine virt -nographic -bios u-boot.bin
 
 - For AArch64::
 
-    qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -bios u-boot.bin
+    qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -nographic -cpu cortex-a57 -bios u-boot.bin
 
 Note that for some odd reason qemu-system-aarch64 needs to be explicitly
-told to use a 64-bit CPU or it will boot in 32-bit mode.
+told to use a 64-bit CPU or it will boot in 32-bit mode. The -nographic argument
+ensures that output appears on the terminal. Use Ctrl-A X to quit.
 
 Additional persistent U-boot environment support can be added as follows:
 
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