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-rw-r--r--docs/system/arm/mps2.rst24
-rw-r--r--docs/system/arm/nuvoton.rst3
-rw-r--r--docs/system/riscv/sifive_u.rst336
-rw-r--r--docs/system/target-riscv.rst72
-rw-r--r--docs/system/targets.rst20
5 files changed, 441 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst b/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst
index 8c5b5f1fe0..601ccea15c 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
-Arm MPS2 boards (``mps2-an385``, ``mps2-an386``, ``mps2-an500``, ``mps2-an505``, ``mps2-an511``, ``mps2-an521``)
-================================================================================================================
+Arm MPS2 and MPS3 boards (``mps2-an385``, ``mps2-an386``, ``mps2-an500``, ``mps2-an505``, ``mps2-an511``, ``mps2-an521``, ``mps3-an524``)
+=========================================================================================================================================
These board models all use Arm M-profile CPUs.
-The Arm MPS2 and MPS2+ dev boards are FPGA based (the 2+ has a bigger
-FPGA but is otherwise the same as the 2). Since the CPU itself
-and most of the devices are in the FPGA, the details of the board
-as seen by the guest depend significantly on the FPGA image.
+The Arm MPS2, MPS2+ and MPS3 dev boards are FPGA based (the 2+ has a
+bigger FPGA but is otherwise the same as the 2; the 3 has a bigger
+FPGA again, can handle 4GB of RAM and has a USB controller and QSPI flash).
+
+Since the CPU itself and most of the devices are in the FPGA, the
+details of the board as seen by the guest depend significantly on the
+FPGA image.
QEMU models the following FPGA images:
@@ -22,12 +25,21 @@ QEMU models the following FPGA images:
Cortex-M3 'DesignStart' as documented in Arm Application Note AN511
``mps2-an521``
Dual Cortex-M33 as documented in Arm Application Note AN521
+``mps3-an524``
+ Dual Cortex-M33 on an MPS3, as documented in Arm Application Note AN524
Differences between QEMU and real hardware:
- AN385/AN386 remapping of low 16K of memory to either ZBT SSRAM1 or to
block RAM is unimplemented (QEMU always maps this to ZBT SSRAM1, as
if zbt_boot_ctrl is always zero)
+- AN524 remapping of low memory to either BRAM or to QSPI flash is
+ unimplemented (QEMU always maps this to BRAM, ignoring the
+ SCC CFG_REG0 memory-remap bit)
- QEMU provides a LAN9118 ethernet rather than LAN9220; the only guest
visible difference is that the LAN9118 doesn't support checksum
offloading
+- QEMU does not model the QSPI flash in MPS3 boards as real QSPI
+ flash, but only as simple ROM, so attempting to rewrite the flash
+ from the guest will fail
+- QEMU does not model the USB controller in MPS3 boards
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/nuvoton.rst b/docs/system/arm/nuvoton.rst
index 34fc799b2d..f9fb9224da 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/nuvoton.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/nuvoton.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Supported devices
* Analog to Digital Converter (ADC)
* Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
* SMBus controller (SMBF)
+ * Ethernet controller (EMC)
Missing devices
---------------
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ Missing devices
* Shared memory (SHM)
* eSPI slave interface
- * Ethernet controllers (GMAC and EMC)
+ * Ethernet controller (GMAC)
* USB device (USBD)
* Peripheral SPI controller (PSPI)
* SD/MMC host
diff --git a/docs/system/riscv/sifive_u.rst b/docs/system/riscv/sifive_u.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98e7562848
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/riscv/sifive_u.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,336 @@
+SiFive HiFive Unleashed (``sifive_u``)
+======================================
+
+SiFive HiFive Unleashed Development Board is the ultimate RISC-V development
+board featuring the Freedom U540 multi-core RISC-V processor.
+
+Supported devices
+-----------------
+
+The ``sifive_u`` machine supports the following devices:
+
+ * 1 E51 / E31 core
+ * Up to 4 U54 / U34 cores
+ * Core Level Interruptor (CLINT)
+ * Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)
+ * Power, Reset, Clock, Interrupt (PRCI)
+ * L2 Loosely Integrated Memory (L2-LIM)
+ * DDR memory controller
+ * 2 UARTs
+ * 1 GEM Ethernet controller
+ * 1 GPIO controller
+ * 1 One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory with stored serial number
+ * 1 DMA controller
+ * 2 QSPI controllers
+ * 1 ISSI 25WP256 flash
+ * 1 SD card in SPI mode
+
+Please note the real world HiFive Unleashed board has a fixed configuration of
+1 E51 core and 4 U54 core combination and the RISC-V core boots in 64-bit mode.
+With QEMU, one can create a machine with 1 E51 core and up to 4 U54 cores. It
+is also possible to create a 32-bit variant with the same peripherals except
+that the RISC-V cores are replaced by the 32-bit ones (E31 and U34), to help
+testing of 32-bit guest software.
+
+Hardware configuration information
+----------------------------------
+
+The ``sifive_u`` machine automatically generates a device tree blob ("dtb")
+which it passes to the guest. This provides information about the addresses,
+interrupt lines and other configuration of the various devices in the system.
+Guest software should discover the devices that are present in the generated
+DTB instead of using a DTB for the real hardware, as some of the devices are
+not modeled by QEMU and trying to access these devices may cause unexpected
+behavior.
+
+Boot options
+------------
+
+The ``sifive_u`` machine can start using the standard -kernel functionality
+for loading a Linux kernel, a VxWorks kernel, a modified U-Boot bootloader
+(S-mode) or ELF executable with the default OpenSBI firmware image as the
+-bios. It also supports booting the unmodified U-Boot bootloader using the
+standard -bios functionality.
+
+Machine-specific options
+------------------------
+
+The following machine-specific options are supported:
+
+- serial=nnn
+
+ The board serial number. When not given, the default serial number 1 is used.
+
+ SiFive reserves the first 1 KiB of the 16 KiB OTP memory for internal use.
+ The current usage is only used to store the serial number of the board at
+ offset 0xfc. U-Boot reads the serial number from the OTP memory, and uses
+ it to generate a unique MAC address to be programmed to the on-chip GEM
+ Ethernet controller. When multiple QEMU ``sifive_u`` machines are created
+ and connected to the same subnet, they all have the same MAC address hence
+ it creates an unusable network. In such scenario, user should give different
+ values to serial= when creating different ``sifive_u`` machines.
+
+- start-in-flash
+
+ When given, QEMU's ROM codes jump to QSPI memory-mapped flash directly.
+ Otherwise QEMU will jump to DRAM or L2LIM depending on the msel= value.
+ When not given, it defaults to direct DRAM booting.
+
+- msel=[6|11]
+
+ Mode Select (MSEL[3:0]) pins value, used to control where to boot from.
+
+ The FU540 SoC supports booting from several sources, which are controlled
+ using the Mode Select pins on the chip. Typically, the boot process runs
+ through several stages before it begins execution of user-provided programs.
+ These stages typically include the following:
+
+ 1. Zeroth Stage Boot Loader (ZSBL), which is contained in an on-chip mask
+ ROM and provided by QEMU. Note QEMU implemented ROM codes are not the
+ same as what is programmed in the hardware. The QEMU one is a simplified
+ version, but it provides the same functionality as the hardware.
+ 2. First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL), which brings up PLLs and DDR memory.
+ This is U-Boot SPL.
+ 3. Second Stage Boot Loader (SSBL), which further initializes additional
+ peripherals as needed. This is U-Boot proper combined with an OpenSBI
+ fw_dynamic firmware image.
+
+ msel=6 means FSBL and SSBL are both on the QSPI flash. msel=11 means FSBL
+ and SSBL are both on the SD card.
+
+Running Linux kernel
+--------------------
+
+Linux mainline v5.10 release is tested at the time of writing. To build a
+Linux mainline kernel that can be booted by the ``sifive_u`` machine in
+64-bit mode, simply configure the kernel using the defconfig configuration:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ export ARCH=riscv
+ $ export CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-
+ $ make defconfig
+ $ make
+
+To boot the newly built Linux kernel in QEMU with the ``sifive_u`` machine:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-riscv64 -M sifive_u -smp 5 -m 2G \
+ -display none -serial stdio \
+ -kernel arch/riscv/boot/Image \
+ -initrd /path/to/rootfs.ext4 \
+ -append "root=/dev/ram"
+
+To build a Linux mainline kernel that can be booted by the ``sifive_u`` machine
+in 32-bit mode, use the rv32_defconfig configuration. A patch is required to
+fix the 32-bit boot issue for Linux kernel v5.10.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ export ARCH=riscv
+ $ export CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-
+ $ curl https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/patch/20201219001356.2887782-1-atish.patra@wdc.com/mbox/ > riscv.patch
+ $ git am riscv.patch
+ $ make rv32_defconfig
+ $ make
+
+Replace ``qemu-system-riscv64`` with ``qemu-system-riscv32`` in the command
+line above to boot the 32-bit Linux kernel. A rootfs image containing 32-bit
+applications shall be used in order for kernel to boot to user space.
+
+Running VxWorks kernel
+----------------------
+
+VxWorks 7 SR0650 release is tested at the time of writing. To build a 64-bit
+VxWorks mainline kernel that can be booted by the ``sifive_u`` machine, simply
+create a VxWorks source build project based on the sifive_generic BSP, and a
+VxWorks image project to generate the bootable VxWorks image, by following the
+BSP documentation instructions.
+
+A pre-built 64-bit VxWorks 7 image for HiFive Unleashed board is available as
+part of the VxWorks SDK for testing as well. Instructions to download the SDK:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ wget https://labs.windriver.com/downloads/wrsdk-vxworks7-sifive-hifive-1.01.tar.bz2
+ $ tar xvf wrsdk-vxworks7-sifive-hifive-1.01.tar.bz2
+ $ ls bsps/sifive_generic_1_0_0_0/uboot/uVxWorks
+
+To boot the VxWorks kernel in QEMU with the ``sifive_u`` machine, use:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-riscv64 -M sifive_u -smp 5 -m 2G \
+ -display none -serial stdio \
+ -nic tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no \
+ -kernel /path/to/vxWorks \
+ -append "gem(0,0)host:vxWorks h=192.168.200.1 e=192.168.200.2:ffffff00 u=target pw=vxTarget f=0x01"
+
+It is also possible to test 32-bit VxWorks on the ``sifive_u`` machine. Create
+a 32-bit project to build the 32-bit VxWorks image, and use exact the same
+command line options with ``qemu-system-riscv32``.
+
+Running U-Boot
+--------------
+
+U-Boot mainline v2021.01 release is tested at the time of writing. To build a
+U-Boot mainline bootloader that can be booted by the ``sifive_u`` machine, use
+the sifive_fu540_defconfig with similar commands as described above for Linux:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ export CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-
+ $ export OPENSBI=/path/to/opensbi-riscv64-generic-fw_dynamic.bin
+ $ make sifive_fu540_defconfig
+
+You will get spl/u-boot-spl.bin and u-boot.itb file in the build tree.
+
+To start U-Boot using the ``sifive_u`` machine, prepare an SPI flash image, or
+SD card image that is properly partitioned and populated with correct contents.
+genimage_ can be used to generate these images.
+
+A sample configuration file for a 128 MiB SD card image is:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ cat genimage_sdcard.cfg
+ image sdcard.img {
+ size = 128M
+
+ hdimage {
+ gpt = true
+ }
+
+ partition u-boot-spl {
+ image = "u-boot-spl.bin"
+ offset = 17K
+ partition-type-uuid = 5B193300-FC78-40CD-8002-E86C45580B47
+ }
+
+ partition u-boot {
+ image = "u-boot.itb"
+ offset = 1041K
+ partition-type-uuid = 2E54B353-1271-4842-806F-E436D6AF6985
+ }
+ }
+
+SPI flash image has slightly different partition offsets, and the size has to
+be 32 MiB to match the ISSI 25WP256 flash on the real board:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ cat genimage_spi-nor.cfg
+ image spi-nor.img {
+ size = 32M
+
+ hdimage {
+ gpt = true
+ }
+
+ partition u-boot-spl {
+ image = "u-boot-spl.bin"
+ offset = 20K
+ partition-type-uuid = 5B193300-FC78-40CD-8002-E86C45580B47
+ }
+
+ partition u-boot {
+ image = "u-boot.itb"
+ offset = 1044K
+ partition-type-uuid = 2E54B353-1271-4842-806F-E436D6AF6985
+ }
+ }
+
+Assume U-Boot binaries are put in the same directory as the config file,
+we can generate the image by:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ genimage --config genimage_<boot_src>.cfg --inputpath .
+
+Boot U-Boot from SD card, by specifying msel=11 and pass the SD card image
+to QEMU ``sifive_u`` machine:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-riscv64 -M sifive_u,msel=11 -smp 5 -m 8G \
+ -display none -serial stdio \
+ -bios /path/to/u-boot-spl.bin \
+ -drive file=/path/to/sdcard.img,if=sd
+
+Changing msel= value to 6, allows booting U-Boot from the SPI flash:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-riscv64 -M sifive_u,msel=6 -smp 5 -m 8G \
+ -display none -serial stdio \
+ -bios /path/to/u-boot-spl.bin \
+ -drive file=/path/to/spi-nor.img,if=mtd
+
+Note when testing U-Boot, QEMU automatically generated device tree blob is
+not used because U-Boot itself embeds device tree blobs for U-Boot SPL and
+U-Boot proper. Hence the number of cores and size of memory have to match
+the real hardware, ie: 5 cores (-smp 5) and 8 GiB memory (-m 8G).
+
+Above use case is to run upstream U-Boot for the SiFive HiFive Unleashed
+board on QEMU ``sifive_u`` machine out of the box. This allows users to
+develop and test the recommended RISC-V boot flow with a real world use
+case: ZSBL (in QEMU) loads U-Boot SPL from SD card or SPI flash to L2LIM,
+then U-Boot SPL loads the combined payload image of OpenSBI fw_dynamic
+firmware and U-Boot proper. However sometimes we want to have a quick test
+of booting U-Boot on QEMU without the needs of preparing the SPI flash or
+SD card images, an alternate way can be used, which is to create a U-Boot
+S-mode image by modifying the configuration of U-Boot:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ make menuconfig
+
+then manually select the following configuration in U-Boot:
+
+ Device Tree Control > Provider of DTB for DT Control > Prior Stage bootloader DTB
+
+This lets U-Boot to use the QEMU generated device tree blob. During the build,
+a build error will be seen below:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ MKIMAGE u-boot.img
+ ./tools/mkimage: Can't open arch/riscv/dts/hifive-unleashed-a00.dtb: No such file or directory
+ ./tools/mkimage: failed to build FIT
+ make: *** [Makefile:1440: u-boot.img] Error 1
+
+The above errors can be safely ignored as we don't run U-Boot SPL under QEMU
+in this alternate configuration.
+
+Boot the 64-bit U-Boot S-mode image directly:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-riscv64 -M sifive_u -smp 5 -m 2G \
+ -display none -serial stdio \
+ -kernel /path/to/u-boot.bin
+
+It's possible to create a 32-bit U-Boot S-mode image as well.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ export CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-
+ $ make sifive_fu540_defconfig
+ $ make menuconfig
+
+then manually update the following configuration in U-Boot:
+
+ Device Tree Control > Provider of DTB for DT Control > Prior Stage bootloader DTB
+ RISC-V architecture > Base ISA > RV32I
+ Boot images > Text Base > 0x80400000
+
+Use the same command line options to boot the 32-bit U-Boot S-mode image:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-riscv32 -M sifive_u -smp 5 -m 2G \
+ -display none -serial stdio \
+ -kernel /path/to/u-boot.bin
+
+.. _genimage: https://github.com/pengutronix/genimage
diff --git a/docs/system/target-riscv.rst b/docs/system/target-riscv.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..94d99c4c82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/target-riscv.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+.. _RISC-V-System-emulator:
+
+RISC-V System emulator
+======================
+
+QEMU can emulate both 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V CPUs. Use the
+``qemu-system-riscv64`` executable to simulate a 64-bit RISC-V machine,
+``qemu-system-riscv32`` executable to simulate a 32-bit RISC-V machine.
+
+QEMU has generally good support for RISC-V guests. It has support for
+several different machines. The reason we support so many is that
+RISC-V hardware is much more widely varying than x86 hardware. RISC-V
+CPUs are generally built into "system-on-chip" (SoC) designs created by
+many different companies with different devices, and these SoCs are
+then built into machines which can vary still further even if they use
+the same SoC.
+
+For most boards the CPU type is fixed (matching what the hardware has),
+so typically you don't need to specify the CPU type by hand, except for
+special cases like the ``virt`` board.
+
+Choosing a board model
+----------------------
+
+For QEMU's RISC-V system emulation, you must specify which board
+model you want to use with the ``-M`` or ``--machine`` option;
+there is no default.
+
+Because RISC-V systems differ so much and in fundamental ways, typically
+operating system or firmware images intended to run on one machine
+will not run at all on any other. This is often surprising for new
+users who are used to the x86 world where every system looks like a
+standard PC. (Once the kernel has booted, most user space software
+cares much less about the detail of the hardware.)
+
+If you already have a system image or a kernel that works on hardware
+and you want to boot with QEMU, check whether QEMU lists that machine
+in its ``-machine help`` output. If it is listed, then you can probably
+use that board model. If it is not listed, then unfortunately your image
+will almost certainly not boot on QEMU. (You might be able to
+extract the file system and use that with a different kernel which
+boots on a system that QEMU does emulate.)
+
+If you don't care about reproducing the idiosyncrasies of a particular
+bit of hardware, such as small amount of RAM, no PCI or other hard
+disk, etc., and just want to run Linux, the best option is to use the
+``virt`` board. This is a platform which doesn't correspond to any
+real hardware and is designed for use in virtual machines. You'll
+need to compile Linux with a suitable configuration for running on
+the ``virt`` board. ``virt`` supports PCI, virtio, recent CPUs and
+large amounts of RAM. It also supports 64-bit CPUs.
+
+Board-specific documentation
+----------------------------
+
+Unfortunately many of the RISC-V boards QEMU supports are currently
+undocumented; you can get a complete list by running
+``qemu-system-riscv64 --machine help``, or
+``qemu-system-riscv32 --machine help``.
+
+..
+ This table of contents should be kept sorted alphabetically
+ by the title text of each file, which isn't the same ordering
+ as an alphabetical sort by filename.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ riscv/sifive_u
+
+RISC-V CPU features
+-------------------
diff --git a/docs/system/targets.rst b/docs/system/targets.rst
index 560783644d..75ed1087fd 100644
--- a/docs/system/targets.rst
+++ b/docs/system/targets.rst
@@ -7,16 +7,22 @@ various targets are mentioned in the following sections.
Contents:
+..
+ This table of contents should be kept sorted alphabetically
+ by the title text of each file, which isn't the same ordering
+ as an alphabetical sort by filename.
+
.. toctree::
- target-i386
+ target-arm
+ target-avr
+ target-m68k
+ target-mips
target-ppc
+ target-riscv
+ target-rx
+ target-s390x
target-sparc
target-sparc64
- target-mips
- target-arm
- target-m68k
+ target-i386
target-xtensa
- target-s390x
- target-rx
- target-avr