From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUERY] Building and testing Aarch64
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:01:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130927150156.GE26069@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=YdxF43RQ-Fddp4Rzmx3aU3QdOPrjR=X+s6Wt9_RAYUg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0100, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > ARM provides an emulator, ARMv8 Foundation Model (free as in free beer
> > but you need to register to be able to download, just like the
> > architecture documentation):
> >
> > http://www.arm.com/products/tools/models/fast-models/foundation-model.php
>
> I downloaded the foundation model and ran:
>
> $ ./Foundation_v8 --image linux-system-foundation.axf --block-device
> debian-arm-rootfs
>
> as described in the Debian page [1]. However, I didn't understand how
> to boot it up with the kernel I just built with my toolchain
> (arch/arm64/boot/Image.gz). What is this linux-system-foundation.axf?
The .axf file is something traditionally called ARM eXecutable Format,
which these days it's just an ELF format that the model can load
directly. The above code contains the pre-Linux boot initialisation, the
kernel Image (uncompressed, doesn't have a decompressor) and possibly a
filesystem, unless you use the --block-device model option. To get the
boot wrapper, just clone this:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/boot-wrapper-aarch64.git
The README and Makefile should be enough to get you started.
> Also, what is libarmctmodel.so?
I think that's the library that contains the actual software model.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-27 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-27 8:58 [QUERY] Building and testing Aarch64 Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-27 14:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-09-27 14:43 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-27 15:01 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2013-09-28 7:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-28 8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-09-28 8:36 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-28 9:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-09-28 9:39 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-28 10:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-09-28 10:50 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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