[PATCH v5 25/36] board: emulation: Add QEMU sbsa support

Patrick Rudolph patrick.rudolph at 9elements.com
Tue Oct 1 17:17:04 CEST 2024


Hi Tom,
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 5:05 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 12:49:41PM +0200, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 11:28 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Patrick,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 10:03, Patrick Rudolph
> > > <patrick.rudolph at 9elements.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add support for Arm sbsa [1] v0.3+ that is supported by QEMU [2].
> > > >
> > > > Unlike other Arm based platforms the machine only provides a minimal
> > > > FDT that contains number of CPUs, ammount of memory and machine-version.
> > > > The boot firmware has to provide ACPI tables to the OS.
> > > > Due to this design a full DTB is added here as well that allows U-Boot's
> > > > driver to properly function. The DTB is appended at the end of the U-Boot
> > > > image and will be merged with the QEMU provided DTB.
> > > >
> > > > In addition provide documentation how to use, enable binman to fabricate both
> > > > ROMs that are required to boot and add ACPI tables to make it full compatible
> > > > to the EDK2 reference implementation.
> > > >
> > > > The board was tested using Fedora 40 Aarch64 Workstation. It's able
> > > > to boot from USB and AHCI or network.
> > > >
> > > > Tested and found working:
> > > > - serial
> > > > - PCI
> > > > - xHCI
> > > > - Bochs display
> > > > - AHCI
> > > > - network using e1000e
> > > > - CPU init
> > > > - Booting Fedora 40
> > > >
> > > > 1: Server Base System Architecture (SBSA)
> > > > 2: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/arm/sbsa.html
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph at 9elements.com>
> > > > Cc: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > > Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > Changelog v3:
> > > > - Add GIC and GIC-ITS to devicetree
> > > > - Select GICv3 driver
> > > > - Drop acpi_fill_madt and use driver model instead
> > > > Changelog v4:
> > > > - Drop CPU platform code
> > > > - Enhance the DT to allow MADT generation from DT
> > > > Changelog v5:
> > > > - Add full DT and place it at the end of U-Boot
> > > > - Merge DT with QEMU's DT
> > > > - Drop DT generation code
> > > > - Fix flash region length
> > > > - Drop enable_caches()
> > > > - Support platforms that do not pass FDT in x0
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/arm/Kconfig                            |   3 +-
> > > >  arch/arm/dts/qemu-sbsa.dts                  | 138 ++++++
> > > >  arch/arm/include/asm/arch-qemu-sbsa/boot0.h |  34 ++
> > > >  arch/arm/mach-qemu/Kconfig                  |  36 +-
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-arm/MAINTAINERS        |   2 +
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/Kconfig           |  59 +++
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/Makefile          |   8 +
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/acpi.c            | 193 ++++++++
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/dsdt.asl          | 483 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/lowlevel_init.S   |  22 +
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/qemu-sbsa.c       | 312 +++++++++++++
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/qemu-sbsa.env     |  14 +
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/qemu-sbsa.h       |  38 ++
> > > >  board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/smc.c             |  72 +++
> > > >  configs/qemu-arm-sbsa_defconfig             |  10 +
> > > >  doc/board/emulation/index.rst               |   1 +
> > > >  doc/board/emulation/qemu-sbsa.rst           |  98 ++++
> > > >  doc/develop/driver-model/virtio.rst         |   1 +
> > > >  include/configs/qemu-sbsa.h                 | 104 +++++
> > > >  19 files changed, 1621 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/qemu-sbsa.dts
> > > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/arch-qemu-sbsa/boot0.h
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/Kconfig
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/Makefile
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/acpi.c
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/dsdt.asl
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/lowlevel_init.S
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/qemu-sbsa.c
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/qemu-sbsa.env
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/qemu-sbsa.h
> > > >  create mode 100644 board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/smc.c
> > > >  create mode 100644 configs/qemu-arm-sbsa_defconfig
> > > >  create mode 100644 doc/board/emulation/qemu-sbsa.rst
> > > >  create mode 100644 include/configs/qemu-sbsa.h
> > >
> > > Please check the header order throughout
> > > E.g. board/emulation/qemu-sbsa/qemu-sbsa.c is still incorrect
> > >
> > > You should not need to include 'config.h' as kconfig is included by default?
> > >
> > > Do you need to add all the CFG items? Are they present in the devicetree?
> > What are CFG items?
>
> He means literally "#define CFG_FOO     0xdeadbeef" type statements.
>
Oh. In that case: All defines are used within the code or the DT. I
found that other
platforms open code magic numbers in the DT, but I thought it's a good idea to
use defines for everything. The defines are also used for the MMU setup and
for the DSDT generation.

> --
> Tom


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