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From: Jamin Lin via <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Steven Lee" <steven_lee@aspeedtech.com>,
	"Troy Lee" <leetroy@gmail.com>,
	"Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>,
	"Joel Stanley" <joel@jms.id.au>,
	"open list:All patches CC here" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"open list:ASPEED BMCs" <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>
Cc: jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com, troy_lee@aspeedtech.com,
	nabihestefan@google.com, "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 6/6] docs/system/arm/aspeed: Support vbootrom for AST2700
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:51:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250424075135.3715128-7-jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250424075135.3715128-1-jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com>

Using the vbootrom image support and the boot ROM binary is
now passed via the -bios option, using the image located in
pc-bios/ast27x0_bootrom.bin.

Signed-off-by: Jamin Lin <jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Nabih Estefan <nabihestefan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
---
 docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
index 08a33b7008..014545f444 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
@@ -306,7 +306,14 @@ Images can be downloaded from the ASPEED Forked OpenBMC GitHub release repositor
 Booting the ast2700-evb machine
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image, use an MTD drive :
+Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image.
+
+There are two supported methods for booting the AST2700 machine with a flash image:
+
+Manual boot using ``-device loader``:
+
+It causes all 4 CPU cores to start execution from address ``0x430000000``, which
+corresponds to the BL31 image load address.
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -326,6 +333,26 @@ Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image, use an MTD drive :
        -drive file=${IMGDIR}/image-bmc,format=raw,if=mtd \
        -nographic
 
+Boot using a virtual boot ROM (``-bios``):
+
+If users do not specify the ``-bios option``, QEMU will attempt to load the
+default vbootrom image ``ast27x0_bootrom.bin`` from either the current working
+directory or the ``pc-bios`` directory within the QEMU source tree.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M ast2700-evb \
+      -drive file=image-bmc,format=raw,if=mtd \
+      -nographic
+
+The ``-bios`` option allows users to specify a custom path for the vbootrom
+image to be loaded during boot. This will load the vbootrom image from the
+specified path in the ${HOME} directory.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  -bios ${HOME}/ast27x0_bootrom.bin
+
 Aspeed minibmc family boards (``ast1030-evb``)
 ==================================================================
 
-- 
2.43.0


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jamin Lin via <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Steven Lee" <steven_lee@aspeedtech.com>,
	"Troy Lee" <leetroy@gmail.com>,
	"Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au>,
	"Joel Stanley" <joel@jms.id.au>,
	"open list:All patches CC here" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"open list:ASPEED BMCs" <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>
Cc: jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com, troy_lee@aspeedtech.com,
	nabihestefan@google.com, "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 6/6] docs/system/arm/aspeed: Support vbootrom for AST2700
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:51:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250424075135.3715128-7-jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250424075135.3715128-1-jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com>

Using the vbootrom image support and the boot ROM binary is
now passed via the -bios option, using the image located in
pc-bios/ast27x0_bootrom.bin.

Signed-off-by: Jamin Lin <jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Nabih Estefan <nabihestefan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
---
 docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
index 08a33b7008..014545f444 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
@@ -306,7 +306,14 @@ Images can be downloaded from the ASPEED Forked OpenBMC GitHub release repositor
 Booting the ast2700-evb machine
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image, use an MTD drive :
+Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image.
+
+There are two supported methods for booting the AST2700 machine with a flash image:
+
+Manual boot using ``-device loader``:
+
+It causes all 4 CPU cores to start execution from address ``0x430000000``, which
+corresponds to the BL31 image load address.
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -326,6 +333,26 @@ Boot the AST2700 machine from the flash image, use an MTD drive :
        -drive file=${IMGDIR}/image-bmc,format=raw,if=mtd \
        -nographic
 
+Boot using a virtual boot ROM (``-bios``):
+
+If users do not specify the ``-bios option``, QEMU will attempt to load the
+default vbootrom image ``ast27x0_bootrom.bin`` from either the current working
+directory or the ``pc-bios`` directory within the QEMU source tree.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M ast2700-evb \
+      -drive file=image-bmc,format=raw,if=mtd \
+      -nographic
+
+The ``-bios`` option allows users to specify a custom path for the vbootrom
+image to be loaded during boot. This will load the vbootrom image from the
+specified path in the ${HOME} directory.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  -bios ${HOME}/ast27x0_bootrom.bin
+
 Aspeed minibmc family boards (``ast1030-evb``)
 ==================================================================
 
-- 
2.43.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-04-24  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-24  7:51 [PATCH v6 0/6] Support vbootrom for AST2700 Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  7:51 ` Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  7:51 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0 Introduce vbootrom memory region Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  7:51   ` Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  8:43   ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-04-24  7:51 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] pc-bios: Add AST27x0 vBootrom Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24 10:22   ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-04-25  2:28     ` Jamin Lin
2025-04-25  6:21       ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-04-24  7:51 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] hw/arm/aspeed: Add support for loading vbootrom image via "-bios" Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  7:51   ` Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  8:59   ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-04-24  7:51 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] tests/functional/aspeed: Add to test vbootrom for AST2700 Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  7:51 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] docs/system/arm/aspeed: move AST2700 content to new section Jamin Lin via
2025-04-24  9:00   ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-04-24  7:51 ` Jamin Lin via [this message]
2025-04-24  7:51   ` [PATCH v6 6/6] docs/system/arm/aspeed: Support vbootrom for AST2700 Jamin Lin via
2025-04-29  7:21 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] " Cédric Le Goater

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