[Qemu-arm] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Qemu-arm] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Mats Malmberg]

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Hello all!

TL;DR : Is the raspi2 machine ready to use? If yes, how do I use it with ordinary rpi distros? If not, what is the best way to emulate raspberry pi 2 via Qemu?

Host 'uname -a' output:
Linux user-Precision-M4700 3.19.0-49-generic #55~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 11:24:31 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Qemu version (via apt-get) 2.5.50



I have been trying lately to get an emulation going with the raspi2 machine. I admit that this is my first encounter with trying to use qemu, so perhaps some of my attempts have been naive in their approach. Still, I've spent a lot of time googling guides, qemu user documentation, blog posts, git repositories etc, but with no success. Now I'm all out of ideas...

I've tried more ways than suitable to describe here, but in short I typically:
1. take a official linux distro for raspberry pi (alpine, raspbian-jessie, Hypriot etc) (all of them verified to work on actual target)
2. find a (what I think is) a compatible kernel, either by copying from distro's rootfs boot/ directory or by building a qemu kernel from source (https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel)
3. try and start the emulation with
qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel_file -M raspi2 -hda linux_image_file.img

at this point, the terminal says "VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
4. using vinagre client i connect to the given address, but it only gives me a compat_monitor0 console

Thus I wonder, is the raspi2 machine a feature that is ready to use?
If so, where do I fail in my attempts? If not, what is a recommended alternative?

Any help or pointers on how to be able to emulate my target (raspberry pi 2) would be very appreciated.


Best Regards
Mats

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Re: [Qemu-arm] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Peter Maydell]

On 24 February 2016 at 15:40, Mats Malmberg <mats.malmberg@tritech.se> wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> TL;DR : Is the raspi2 machine ready to use? If yes, how do I use it with
> ordinary rpi distros? If not, what is the best way to emulate raspberry
> pi 2 via Qemu?

Hi; I've cc'd the main qemu-devel list and Andrew Baumann who contributed
the rpi2 support. I know there are still some missing pieces to be
added later but I forget the details.

> Host 'uname -a' output:
> Linux user-Precision-M4700 3.19.0-49-generic #55~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 11:24:31 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Qemu version (via apt-get) 2.5.50
>
>
>
> I have been trying lately to get an emulation going with the raspi2 machine. I admit that this is my first encounter with trying to use qemu, so perhaps some of my attempts have been naive in their approach. Still, I've spent a lot of time googling guides, qemu user documentation, blog posts, git repositories etc, but with no success. Now I'm all out of ideas...
>
> I've tried more ways than suitable to describe here, but in short I typically:
> 1. take a official linux distro for raspberry pi (alpine, raspbian-jessie, Hypriot etc) (all of them verified to work on actual target)
> 2. find a (what I think is) a compatible kernel, either by copying from distro's rootfs boot/ directory or by building a qemu kernel from source (https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel)
> 3. try and start the emulation with
> qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel_file -M raspi2 -hda linux_image_file.img
>
> at this point, the terminal says "VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
> 4. using vinagre client i connect to the given address, but it only gives me a compat_monitor0 console
>
> Thus I wonder, is the raspi2 machine a feature that is ready to use?
> If so, where do I fail in my attempts? If not, what is a recommended alternative?
>
> Any help or pointers on how to be able to emulate my target (raspberry pi 2) would be very appreciated.

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-arm] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Andrew Baumann]

> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.maydell@linaro.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 9:49 AM
> 
> On 24 February 2016 at 15:40, Mats Malmberg <mats.malmberg@tritech.se>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all!
> >
> > TL;DR : Is the raspi2 machine ready to use? If yes, how do I use it with
> > ordinary rpi distros? If not, what is the best way to emulate raspberry
> > pi 2 via Qemu?
> 
> Hi; I've cc'd the main qemu-devel list and Andrew Baumann who contributed
> the rpi2 support. I know there are still some missing pieces to be
> added later but I forget the details.

There are still a number of missing pieces (including display and USB) which I hope to submit soon, but you should be able to boot Linux with a serial console. Brief instructions are at the end of this page: https://github.com/0xabu/qemu/wiki

BTW, instead of -hda you need to pass -sd for the image file.

Cheers,
Andrew

> 
> > Host 'uname -a' output:
> > Linux user-Precision-M4700 3.19.0-49-generic #55~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri
> Jan 22 11:24:31 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Qemu version (via apt-get) 2.5.50
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been trying lately to get an emulation going with the raspi2 machine.
> I admit that this is my first encounter with trying to use qemu, so perhaps
> some of my attempts have been naive in their approach. Still, I've spent a lot
> of time googling guides, qemu user documentation, blog posts, git
> repositories etc, but with no success. Now I'm all out of ideas...
> >
> > I've tried more ways than suitable to describe here, but in short I typically:
> > 1. take a official linux distro for raspberry pi (alpine, raspbian-jessie, Hypriot
> etc) (all of them verified to work on actual target)
> > 2. find a (what I think is) a compatible kernel, either by copying from
> distro's rootfs boot/ directory or by building a qemu kernel from source
> (https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel)
> > 3. try and start the emulation with
> > qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel_file -M raspi2 -hda linux_image_file.img
> >
> > at this point, the terminal says "VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
> > 4. using vinagre client i connect to the given address, but it only gives me a
> compat_monitor0 console
> >
> > Thus I wonder, is the raspi2 machine a feature that is ready to use?
> > If so, where do I fail in my attempts? If not, what is a recommended
> alternative?
> >
> > Any help or pointers on how to be able to emulate my target (raspberry pi
> 2) would be very appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[John Snow]

On 02/24/2016 01:04 PM, Andrew Baumann wrote:
>> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.maydell@linaro.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 9:49 AM
>>
>> On 24 February 2016 at 15:40, Mats Malmberg <mats.malmberg@tritech.se>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all!
>>>
>>> TL;DR : Is the raspi2 machine ready to use? If yes, how do I use it with
>>> ordinary rpi distros? If not, what is the best way to emulate raspberry
>>> pi 2 via Qemu?
>>
>> Hi; I've cc'd the main qemu-devel list and Andrew Baumann who contributed
>> the rpi2 support. I know there are still some missing pieces to be
>> added later but I forget the details.
> 
> There are still a number of missing pieces (including display and USB) which I hope to submit soon, but you should be able to boot Linux with a serial console. Brief instructions are at the end of this page: https://github.com/0xabu/qemu/wiki
> 
> BTW, instead of -hda you need to pass -sd for the image file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 

Is it worth changing the default interface for the "raspi2" board to be
SD so that "-hda xxxxx" mounts an SD card?

Or do we support using that for an imagined S/ATA interface? (BCM2836
doesn't have SATA, right?)

>>
>>> Host 'uname -a' output:
>>> Linux user-Precision-M4700 3.19.0-49-generic #55~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri
>> Jan 22 11:24:31 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> Qemu version (via apt-get) 2.5.50
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have been trying lately to get an emulation going with the raspi2 machine.
>> I admit that this is my first encounter with trying to use qemu, so perhaps
>> some of my attempts have been naive in their approach. Still, I've spent a lot
>> of time googling guides, qemu user documentation, blog posts, git
>> repositories etc, but with no success. Now I'm all out of ideas...
>>>
>>> I've tried more ways than suitable to describe here, but in short I typically:
>>> 1. take a official linux distro for raspberry pi (alpine, raspbian-jessie, Hypriot
>> etc) (all of them verified to work on actual target)
>>> 2. find a (what I think is) a compatible kernel, either by copying from
>> distro's rootfs boot/ directory or by building a qemu kernel from source
>> (https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel)
>>> 3. try and start the emulation with
>>> qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel_file -M raspi2 -hda linux_image_file.img
>>>
>>> at this point, the terminal says "VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
>>> 4. using vinagre client i connect to the given address, but it only gives me a
>> compat_monitor0 console
>>>
>>> Thus I wonder, is the raspi2 machine a feature that is ready to use?
>>> If so, where do I fail in my attempts? If not, what is a recommended
>> alternative?
>>>
>>> Any help or pointers on how to be able to emulate my target (raspberry pi
>> 2) would be very appreciated.
>>
>> thanks
>> -- PMM

Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Andrew Baumann]

> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 10:28 AM
> On 02/24/2016 01:04 PM, Andrew Baumann wrote:
> >> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.maydell@linaro.org]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 9:49 AM
> >>
> >> On 24 February 2016 at 15:40, Mats Malmberg
> <mats.malmberg@tritech.se>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello all!
> >>>
> >>> TL;DR : Is the raspi2 machine ready to use? If yes, how do I use it with
> >>> ordinary rpi distros? If not, what is the best way to emulate raspberry
> >>> pi 2 via Qemu?
> >>
> >> Hi; I've cc'd the main qemu-devel list and Andrew Baumann who
> contributed
> >> the rpi2 support. I know there are still some missing pieces to be
> >> added later but I forget the details.
> >
> > There are still a number of missing pieces (including display and USB) which
> I hope to submit soon, but you should be able to boot Linux with a serial
> console. Brief instructions are at the end of this page:
> https://github.com/0xabu/qemu/wiki
> >
> > BTW, instead of -hda you need to pass -sd for the image file.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> >
> 
> Is it worth changing the default interface for the "raspi2" board to be
> SD so that "-hda xxxxx" mounts an SD card?
> 
> Or do we support using that for an imagined S/ATA interface? (BCM2836
> doesn't have SATA, right?)

Oh, in fact I am already setting that, so perhaps -hda does already work. Mats' problem is most likely just that he's not seeing/enabling the serial console.

Andrew

Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Mats Malmberg]

Hello, thank you for your quick response!

It helped me to get a little bit further, but unfortunately the problem persists. 
I now get some output from the kernel startup, but I think that it is unable to find the provided sd-card image.

Here's what I've tried (the most successful setup):
1. download and deflate jessie/jessie-lite image (I tried both distros)
2. mount the boot partition and copy the following files to host: kernel7.img, kernel.img and bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
3. mount the rootfs partition. Open the file /etc/ld.so.preload and comment out the line /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem.so (which is the only line present in the file.)
4. execute the command 
qemu-system-arm -M raspi2  -kernel kernel7.img -sd 2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img -append "rw earlyprintk loglevel=8 console=ttyAMA0,115200 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" -dtb bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb -serial stdio

the resulting terminal printout : 

WARNING: Image format was not specified for '2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img' and probing guessed raw.
         Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
         Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
Warning: Orphaned drive without device: id=sd0,file=2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img,if=sd,bus=0,unit=0
VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
...
lots of kernel output
...
[    6.306894] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    6.335521] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[    6.338465] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    6.341004] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    6.341768] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    6.346873] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[    6.348012] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    6.350974] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    6.352810] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[    6.360245] registered taskstats version 1
[    6.374999] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
[    6.397370] uart-pl011 3f201000.uart: no DMA platform data
[    6.428165] VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p2" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[    6.429208] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[    6.430848] 0100            4096 ram0  (driver?)
[    6.431718] 0101            4096 ram1  (driver?)
[    6.432348] 0102            4096 ram2  (driver?)
[    6.433101] 0103            4096 ram3  (driver?)
[    6.434627] 0104            4096 ram4  (driver?)
[    6.435317] 0105            4096 ram5  (driver?)
[    6.435995] 0106            4096 ram6  (driver?)
[    6.436749] 0107            4096 ram7  (driver?)
[    6.437507] 0108            4096 ram8  (driver?)
[    6.438159] 0109            4096 ram9  (driver?)
[    6.438853] 010a            4096 ram10  (driver?)
[    6.439562] 010b            4096 ram11  (driver?)
[    6.440193] 010c            4096 ram12  (driver?)
[    6.440815] 010d            4096 ram13  (driver?)
[    6.441439] 010e            4096 ram14  (driver?)
[    6.442065] 010f            4096 ram15  (driver?)
[    6.443003] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[    6.444949] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.17-v7+ #838
[    6.445837] Hardware name: BCM2709
[    6.448200] [<800180c0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<80013b88>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
[    6.449477] [<80013b88>] (show_stack) from [<80555028>] (dump_stack+0x80/0x98)
[    6.450490] [<80555028>] (dump_stack) from [<80551540>] (panic+0xa4/0x204)
[    6.451641] [<80551540>] (panic) from [<80777384>] (mount_block_root+0x1a8/0x260)
[    6.452802] [<80777384>] (mount_block_root) from [<80777614>] (mount_root+0xec/0x110)
[    6.453878] [<80777614>] (mount_root) from [<807777a0>] (prepare_namespace+0x168/0x1c8)
[    6.454982] [<807777a0>] (prepare_namespace) from [<80776f90>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x270/0x2bc)
[    6.456243] [<80776f90>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<80550968>] (kernel_init+0x18/0xfc)
[    6.457378] [<80550968>] (kernel_init) from [<8000f858>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
[    6.459706] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I know that in some of my previous attempts (before I contacted you guys), I was able to get similar result. At that time an mmcblk device was listed among the available partitions, but the kernel was unable to mount it.

I'm having problem to identify the cause (since as I mentioned earlier this is not really my domain).
I've also tried (without any positive results)
- mark the boot partition as bootable with fdisk (does not seem to make any difference)
- use kernel.img instead of kernel7.img (does not provide any kernel printout, but still says that it has an orphaned drive and hangs indefinetly after saying VNC server running)
- create a image with 'qemu-img create raw jessie.img 4G' and use dd to copy original image into jessie.img file, and the provide qemu with format=raw.
- make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -hda 2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img instead of -sd
- make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -drive file=2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img,format=raw,if=sd instead of -sd


Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed with my troubleshooting?
Are you able to explain what seems to be the problem (and possible cause)?

Thank you for your help, really appreciated!

Best regards
Mats


________________________________________
From: Andrew Baumann [Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 7:51 PM
To: John Snow; Peter Maydell; Mats Malmberg
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org; QEMU Developers
Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 10:28 AM
> On 02/24/2016 01:04 PM, Andrew Baumann wrote:
> >> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.maydell@linaro.org]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 9:49 AM
> >>
> >> On 24 February 2016 at 15:40, Mats Malmberg
> <mats.malmberg@tritech.se>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello all!
> >>>
> >>> TL;DR : Is the raspi2 machine ready to use? If yes, how do I use it with
> >>> ordinary rpi distros? If not, what is the best way to emulate raspberry
> >>> pi 2 via Qemu?
> >>
> >> Hi; I've cc'd the main qemu-devel list and Andrew Baumann who
> contributed
> >> the rpi2 support. I know there are still some missing pieces to be
> >> added later but I forget the details.
> >
> > There are still a number of missing pieces (including display and USB) which
> I hope to submit soon, but you should be able to boot Linux with a serial
> console. Brief instructions are at the end of this page:
> https://github.com/0xabu/qemu/wiki
> >
> > BTW, instead of -hda you need to pass -sd for the image file.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> >
>
> Is it worth changing the default interface for the "raspi2" board to be
> SD so that "-hda xxxxx" mounts an SD card?
>
> Or do we support using that for an imagined S/ATA interface? (BCM2836
> doesn't have SATA, right?)

Oh, in fact I am already setting that, so perhaps -hda does already work. Mats' problem is most likely just that he's not seeing/enabling the serial console.

Andrew

Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[John Snow]

On 02/26/2016 04:30 AM, Mats Malmberg wrote:
> Hello, thank you for your quick response!
> 
> It helped me to get a little bit further, but unfortunately the problem persists. 
> I now get some output from the kernel startup, but I think that it is unable to find the provided sd-card image.
> 
> Here's what I've tried (the most successful setup):
> 1. download and deflate jessie/jessie-lite image (I tried both distros)
> 2. mount the boot partition and copy the following files to host: kernel7.img, kernel.img and bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
> 3. mount the rootfs partition. Open the file /etc/ld.so.preload and comment out the line /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem.so (which is the only line present in the file.)
> 4. execute the command 
> qemu-system-arm -M raspi2  -kernel kernel7.img -sd 2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img -append "rw earlyprintk loglevel=8 console=ttyAMA0,115200 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" -dtb bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb -serial stdio
> 
> the resulting terminal printout : 
> 
> WARNING: Image format was not specified for '2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img' and probing guessed raw.
>          Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
>          Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
> Warning: Orphaned drive without device: id=sd0,file=2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img,if=sd,bus=0,unit=0
> VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> ...
> lots of kernel output
> ...
> [    6.306894] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
> [    6.335521] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
> [    6.338465] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
> [    6.341004] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
> [    6.341768] usbhid: USB HID core driver
> [    6.346873] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
> [    6.348012] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [    6.350974] Key type dns_resolver registered
> [    6.352810] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
> [    6.360245] registered taskstats version 1
> [    6.374999] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
> [    6.397370] uart-pl011 3f201000.uart: no DMA platform data
> [    6.428165] VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p2" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
> [    6.429208] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
> [    6.430848] 0100            4096 ram0  (driver?)
> [    6.431718] 0101            4096 ram1  (driver?)
> [    6.432348] 0102            4096 ram2  (driver?)
> [    6.433101] 0103            4096 ram3  (driver?)
> [    6.434627] 0104            4096 ram4  (driver?)
> [    6.435317] 0105            4096 ram5  (driver?)
> [    6.435995] 0106            4096 ram6  (driver?)
> [    6.436749] 0107            4096 ram7  (driver?)
> [    6.437507] 0108            4096 ram8  (driver?)
> [    6.438159] 0109            4096 ram9  (driver?)
> [    6.438853] 010a            4096 ram10  (driver?)
> [    6.439562] 010b            4096 ram11  (driver?)
> [    6.440193] 010c            4096 ram12  (driver?)
> [    6.440815] 010d            4096 ram13  (driver?)
> [    6.441439] 010e            4096 ram14  (driver?)
> [    6.442065] 010f            4096 ram15  (driver?)
> [    6.443003] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> [    6.444949] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.17-v7+ #838
> [    6.445837] Hardware name: BCM2709
> [    6.448200] [<800180c0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<80013b88>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
> [    6.449477] [<80013b88>] (show_stack) from [<80555028>] (dump_stack+0x80/0x98)
> [    6.450490] [<80555028>] (dump_stack) from [<80551540>] (panic+0xa4/0x204)
> [    6.451641] [<80551540>] (panic) from [<80777384>] (mount_block_root+0x1a8/0x260)
> [    6.452802] [<80777384>] (mount_block_root) from [<80777614>] (mount_root+0xec/0x110)
> [    6.453878] [<80777614>] (mount_root) from [<807777a0>] (prepare_namespace+0x168/0x1c8)
> [    6.454982] [<807777a0>] (prepare_namespace) from [<80776f90>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x270/0x2bc)
> [    6.456243] [<80776f90>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<80550968>] (kernel_init+0x18/0xfc)
> [    6.457378] [<80550968>] (kernel_init) from [<8000f858>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
> [    6.459706] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> I know that in some of my previous attempts (before I contacted you guys), I was able to get similar result. At that time an mmcblk device was listed among the available partitions, but the kernel was unable to mount it.
> 
> I'm having problem to identify the cause (since as I mentioned earlier this is not really my domain).
> I've also tried (without any positive results)
> - mark the boot partition as bootable with fdisk (does not seem to make any difference)
> - use kernel.img instead of kernel7.img (does not provide any kernel printout, but still says that it has an orphaned drive and hangs indefinetly after saying VNC server running)
> - create a image with 'qemu-img create raw jessie.img 4G' and use dd to copy original image into jessie.img file, and the provide qemu with format=raw.
> - make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -hda 2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img instead of -sd
> - make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -drive file=2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img,format=raw,if=sd instead of -sd
> 
> 
> Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed with my troubleshooting?
> Are you able to explain what seems to be the problem (and possible cause)?
> 
> Thank you for your help, really appreciated!
> 
> Best regards
> Mats
> 

Andrew, you might want to update the examples on that wiki: it looks
like with recent changes that "-sd" was temporarily insufficient for
getting a proper instance running.

Maybe you should also add some examples that use the -drive/-device
combo that we canonically support in addition to the sugared -sd/-hda.

Mats: for now, try grabbing the latest qemu master, it fixed a bug with
-sd. :)

> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Andrew Baumann [Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 7:51 PM
> To: John Snow; Peter Maydell; Mats Malmberg
> Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org; QEMU Developers
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2
> 
>> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 10:28 AM
>> On 02/24/2016 01:04 PM, Andrew Baumann wrote:
>>>> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.maydell@linaro.org]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 9:49 AM
>>>>
>>>> On 24 February 2016 at 15:40, Mats Malmberg
>> <mats.malmberg@tritech.se>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello all!
>>>>>
>>>>> TL;DR : Is the raspi2 machine ready to use? If yes, how do I use it with
>>>>> ordinary rpi distros? If not, what is the best way to emulate raspberry
>>>>> pi 2 via Qemu?
>>>>
>>>> Hi; I've cc'd the main qemu-devel list and Andrew Baumann who
>> contributed
>>>> the rpi2 support. I know there are still some missing pieces to be
>>>> added later but I forget the details.
>>>
>>> There are still a number of missing pieces (including display and USB) which
>> I hope to submit soon, but you should be able to boot Linux with a serial
>> console. Brief instructions are at the end of this page:
>> https://github.com/0xabu/qemu/wiki
>>>
>>> BTW, instead of -hda you need to pass -sd for the image file.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>
>> Is it worth changing the default interface for the "raspi2" board to be
>> SD so that "-hda xxxxx" mounts an SD card?
>>
>> Or do we support using that for an imagined S/ATA interface? (BCM2836
>> doesn't have SATA, right?)
> 
> Oh, in fact I am already setting that, so perhaps -hda does already work. Mats' problem is most likely just that he's not seeing/enabling the serial console.
> 
> Andrew
> 

Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Andrew Baumann]

> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, 26 February 2016 9:13 AM
> 
> On 02/26/2016 04:30 AM, Mats Malmberg wrote:
> > Hello, thank you for your quick response!
> >
> > It helped me to get a little bit further, but unfortunately the problem
> persists.
> > I now get some output from the kernel startup, but I think that it is unable
> to find the provided sd-card image.
> >
> > Here's what I've tried (the most successful setup):
> > 1. download and deflate jessie/jessie-lite image (I tried both distros)
> > 2. mount the boot partition and copy the following files to host:
> kernel7.img, kernel.img and bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
> > 3. mount the rootfs partition. Open the file /etc/ld.so.preload and
> comment out the line /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem.so (which is
> the only line present in the file.)
> > 4. execute the command
> > qemu-system-arm -M raspi2  -kernel kernel7.img -sd 2016-02-09-raspbian-
> jessie.img -append "rw earlyprintk loglevel=8 console=ttyAMA0,115200
> dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" -dtb bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb -
> serial stdio
> >
> > the resulting terminal printout :
> >
> > WARNING: Image format was not specified for '2016-02-09-raspbian-
> jessie.img' and probing guessed raw.
> >          Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write
> operations on block 0 will be restricted.
> >          Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
> > Warning: Orphaned drive without device: id=sd0,file=2016-02-09-raspbian-
> jessie.img,if=sd,bus=0,unit=0
> > VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
> > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> > ...
> > lots of kernel output
> > ...
> > [    6.306894] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
> > [    6.335521] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
> > [    6.338465] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
> > [    6.341004] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
> > [    6.341768] usbhid: USB HID core driver
> > [    6.346873] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
> > [    6.348012] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> > [    6.350974] Key type dns_resolver registered
> > [    6.352810] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
> > [    6.360245] registered taskstats version 1
> > [    6.374999] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
> > [    6.397370] uart-pl011 3f201000.uart: no DMA platform data
> > [    6.428165] VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p2" or unknown-
> block(0,0): error -6
> > [    6.429208] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the
> available partitions:
> > [    6.430848] 0100            4096 ram0  (driver?)
> > [    6.431718] 0101            4096 ram1  (driver?)
> > [    6.432348] 0102            4096 ram2  (driver?)
> > [    6.433101] 0103            4096 ram3  (driver?)
> > [    6.434627] 0104            4096 ram4  (driver?)
> > [    6.435317] 0105            4096 ram5  (driver?)
> > [    6.435995] 0106            4096 ram6  (driver?)
> > [    6.436749] 0107            4096 ram7  (driver?)
> > [    6.437507] 0108            4096 ram8  (driver?)
> > [    6.438159] 0109            4096 ram9  (driver?)
> > [    6.438853] 010a            4096 ram10  (driver?)
> > [    6.439562] 010b            4096 ram11  (driver?)
> > [    6.440193] 010c            4096 ram12  (driver?)
> > [    6.440815] 010d            4096 ram13  (driver?)
> > [    6.441439] 010e            4096 ram14  (driver?)
> > [    6.442065] 010f            4096 ram15  (driver?)
> > [    6.443003] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
> > [    6.444949] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.17-v7+ #838
> > [    6.445837] Hardware name: BCM2709
> > [    6.448200] [<800180c0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<80013b88>]
> (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
> > [    6.449477] [<80013b88>] (show_stack) from [<80555028>]
> (dump_stack+0x80/0x98)
> > [    6.450490] [<80555028>] (dump_stack) from [<80551540>]
> (panic+0xa4/0x204)
> > [    6.451641] [<80551540>] (panic) from [<80777384>]
> (mount_block_root+0x1a8/0x260)
> > [    6.452802] [<80777384>] (mount_block_root) from [<80777614>]
> (mount_root+0xec/0x110)
> > [    6.453878] [<80777614>] (mount_root) from [<807777a0>]
> (prepare_namespace+0x168/0x1c8)
> > [    6.454982] [<807777a0>] (prepare_namespace) from [<80776f90>]
> (kernel_init_freeable+0x270/0x2bc)
> > [    6.456243] [<80776f90>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<80550968>]
> (kernel_init+0x18/0xfc)
> > [    6.457378] [<80550968>] (kernel_init) from [<8000f858>]
> (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
> > [    6.459706] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root
> fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> >
> > I know that in some of my previous attempts (before I contacted you
> guys), I was able to get similar result. At that time an mmcblk device was
> listed among the available partitions, but the kernel was unable to mount it.
> >
> > I'm having problem to identify the cause (since as I mentioned earlier this is
> not really my domain).
> > I've also tried (without any positive results)
> > - mark the boot partition as bootable with fdisk (does not seem to make
> any difference)
> > - use kernel.img instead of kernel7.img (does not provide any kernel
> printout, but still says that it has an orphaned drive and hangs indefinetly
> after saying VNC server running)
> > - create a image with 'qemu-img create raw jessie.img 4G' and use dd to
> copy original image into jessie.img file, and the provide qemu with
> format=raw.
> > - make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -hda 2016-02-09-
> raspbian-jessie.img instead of -sd
> > - make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -drive file=2016-02-
> 09-raspbian-jessie.img,format=raw,if=sd instead of -sd
> >
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed with my troubleshooting?
> > Are you able to explain what seems to be the problem (and possible
> cause)?
> >
> > Thank you for your help, really appreciated!
> >
> > Best regards
> > Mats
> >
> 
> Andrew, you might want to update the examples on that wiki: it looks
> like with recent changes that "-sd" was temporarily insufficient for
> getting a proper instance running.
> 
> Maybe you should also add some examples that use the -drive/-device
> combo that we canonically support in addition to the sugared -sd/-hda.
>
> Mats: for now, try grabbing the latest qemu master, it fixed a bug with
> -sd. :)

Yes, John's right, please try now and this bug should be fixed.

There was a regression in qemu-master for about a week, fixed by:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg05733.html

John, AFAIK there was no way to have working SD without this patch (the code to hook up the block device didn't exist), so I don't think there's much point updating the wiki.

Cheers,
Andrew

Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[John Snow]

On 02/26/2016 12:23 PM, Andrew Baumann wrote:
>> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Friday, 26 February 2016 9:13 AM
>>
>> On 02/26/2016 04:30 AM, Mats Malmberg wrote:
>>> Hello, thank you for your quick response!
>>>
>>> It helped me to get a little bit further, but unfortunately the problem
>> persists.
>>> I now get some output from the kernel startup, but I think that it is unable
>> to find the provided sd-card image.
>>>
>>> Here's what I've tried (the most successful setup):
>>> 1. download and deflate jessie/jessie-lite image (I tried both distros)
>>> 2. mount the boot partition and copy the following files to host:
>> kernel7.img, kernel.img and bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
>>> 3. mount the rootfs partition. Open the file /etc/ld.so.preload and
>> comment out the line /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem.so (which is
>> the only line present in the file.)
>>> 4. execute the command
>>> qemu-system-arm -M raspi2  -kernel kernel7.img -sd 2016-02-09-raspbian-
>> jessie.img -append "rw earlyprintk loglevel=8 console=ttyAMA0,115200
>> dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" -dtb bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb -
>> serial stdio
>>>
>>> the resulting terminal printout :
>>>
>>> WARNING: Image format was not specified for '2016-02-09-raspbian-
>> jessie.img' and probing guessed raw.
>>>          Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write
>> operations on block 0 will be restricted.
>>>          Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
>>> Warning: Orphaned drive without device: id=sd0,file=2016-02-09-raspbian-
>> jessie.img,if=sd,bus=0,unit=0
>>> VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'
>>> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
>>> ...
>>> lots of kernel output
>>> ...
>>> [    6.306894] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
>>> [    6.335521] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
>>> [    6.338465] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
>>> [    6.341004] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
>>> [    6.341768] usbhid: USB HID core driver
>>> [    6.346873] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
>>> [    6.348012] NET: Registered protocol family 17
>>> [    6.350974] Key type dns_resolver registered
>>> [    6.352810] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
>>> [    6.360245] registered taskstats version 1
>>> [    6.374999] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
>>> [    6.397370] uart-pl011 3f201000.uart: no DMA platform data
>>> [    6.428165] VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p2" or unknown-
>> block(0,0): error -6
>>> [    6.429208] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the
>> available partitions:
>>> [    6.430848] 0100            4096 ram0  (driver?)
>>> [    6.431718] 0101            4096 ram1  (driver?)
>>> [    6.432348] 0102            4096 ram2  (driver?)
>>> [    6.433101] 0103            4096 ram3  (driver?)
>>> [    6.434627] 0104            4096 ram4  (driver?)
>>> [    6.435317] 0105            4096 ram5  (driver?)
>>> [    6.435995] 0106            4096 ram6  (driver?)
>>> [    6.436749] 0107            4096 ram7  (driver?)
>>> [    6.437507] 0108            4096 ram8  (driver?)
>>> [    6.438159] 0109            4096 ram9  (driver?)
>>> [    6.438853] 010a            4096 ram10  (driver?)
>>> [    6.439562] 010b            4096 ram11  (driver?)
>>> [    6.440193] 010c            4096 ram12  (driver?)
>>> [    6.440815] 010d            4096 ram13  (driver?)
>>> [    6.441439] 010e            4096 ram14  (driver?)
>>> [    6.442065] 010f            4096 ram15  (driver?)
>>> [    6.443003] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>> unknown-block(0,0)
>>> [    6.444949] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.1.17-v7+ #838
>>> [    6.445837] Hardware name: BCM2709
>>> [    6.448200] [<800180c0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<80013b88>]
>> (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
>>> [    6.449477] [<80013b88>] (show_stack) from [<80555028>]
>> (dump_stack+0x80/0x98)
>>> [    6.450490] [<80555028>] (dump_stack) from [<80551540>]
>> (panic+0xa4/0x204)
>>> [    6.451641] [<80551540>] (panic) from [<80777384>]
>> (mount_block_root+0x1a8/0x260)
>>> [    6.452802] [<80777384>] (mount_block_root) from [<80777614>]
>> (mount_root+0xec/0x110)
>>> [    6.453878] [<80777614>] (mount_root) from [<807777a0>]
>> (prepare_namespace+0x168/0x1c8)
>>> [    6.454982] [<807777a0>] (prepare_namespace) from [<80776f90>]
>> (kernel_init_freeable+0x270/0x2bc)
>>> [    6.456243] [<80776f90>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<80550968>]
>> (kernel_init+0x18/0xfc)
>>> [    6.457378] [<80550968>] (kernel_init) from [<8000f858>]
>> (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
>>> [    6.459706] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root
>> fs on unknown-block(0,0)
>>>
>>> I know that in some of my previous attempts (before I contacted you
>> guys), I was able to get similar result. At that time an mmcblk device was
>> listed among the available partitions, but the kernel was unable to mount it.
>>>
>>> I'm having problem to identify the cause (since as I mentioned earlier this is
>> not really my domain).
>>> I've also tried (without any positive results)
>>> - mark the boot partition as bootable with fdisk (does not seem to make
>> any difference)
>>> - use kernel.img instead of kernel7.img (does not provide any kernel
>> printout, but still says that it has an orphaned drive and hangs indefinetly
>> after saying VNC server running)
>>> - create a image with 'qemu-img create raw jessie.img 4G' and use dd to
>> copy original image into jessie.img file, and the provide qemu with
>> format=raw.
>>> - make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -hda 2016-02-09-
>> raspbian-jessie.img instead of -sd
>>> - make the above qemu-system-arm invocation with -drive file=2016-02-
>> 09-raspbian-jessie.img,format=raw,if=sd instead of -sd
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed with my troubleshooting?
>>> Are you able to explain what seems to be the problem (and possible
>> cause)?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help, really appreciated!
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Mats
>>>
>>
>> Andrew, you might want to update the examples on that wiki: it looks
>> like with recent changes that "-sd" was temporarily insufficient for
>> getting a proper instance running.
>>
>> Maybe you should also add some examples that use the -drive/-device
>> combo that we canonically support in addition to the sugared -sd/-hda.
>>
>> Mats: for now, try grabbing the latest qemu master, it fixed a bug with
>> -sd. :)
> 
> Yes, John's right, please try now and this bug should be fixed.
> 
> There was a regression in qemu-master for about a week, fixed by:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg05733.html
> 
> John, AFAIK there was no way to have working SD without this patch (the code to hook up the block device didn't exist), so I don't think there's much point updating the wiki.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 

`-drive if=none,id=sd0,file=etc.img,format=raw
 -device sd-card,drive=sd0,bus=sd-bus`

doesn't work?

The code to "hook up the block device" was added to the board init, but
that's for if=SD devices as added by -sd. the -drive/-device combo
should work anyway, because you are explicitly hooking it up via -device.

I guess the QOMification of SD is new, but usually we recommend/prefer
scripts and clients to use the explicit drive/device syntax above
instead of the -sd or -hda syntactic sugar. Real actual people can still
use -sd/-hd -- but they're prone to breakage as you've seen.

--js

Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] help on how to emulate rasbperry pi 2

[Andrew Baumann]

> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, 26 February 2016 9:53 AM
> 
> On 02/26/2016 12:23 PM, Andrew Baumann wrote:
> >> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, 26 February 2016 9:13 AM
[...]
> >> Andrew, you might want to update the examples on that wiki: it looks
> >> like with recent changes that "-sd" was temporarily insufficient for
> >> getting a proper instance running.
> >>
> >> Maybe you should also add some examples that use the -drive/-device
> >> combo that we canonically support in addition to the sugared -sd/-hda.
> >>
> >> Mats: for now, try grabbing the latest qemu master, it fixed a bug with
> >> -sd. :)
> >
> > Yes, John's right, please try now and this bug should be fixed.
> >
> > There was a regression in qemu-master for about a week, fixed by:
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-
> 02/msg05733.html
> >
> > John, AFAIK there was no way to have working SD without this patch (the
> code to hook up the block device didn't exist), so I don't think there's much
> point updating the wiki.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> >
> 
> `-drive if=none,id=sd0,file=etc.img,format=raw
>  -device sd-card,drive=sd0,bus=sd-bus`
> 
> doesn't work?

No, that doesn't work, but don't ask me why. After commenting out the new code in raspi.c, I get:

./qemu-system-arm.exe -M raspi2 -bios e:/raspi/th2_10556_uefi.img -drive if=none,id=sd0,file=e:/raspi/th2_10556_pi2.vhd,format=raw -device sd-card,drive=sd0,bus=sd-bus
E:\qemu\build64\arm-softmmu\qemu-system-arm.exe: Device with id 'sd0' already exists

Changing the id to sd1 proceeds, but results in an unbootable system (looks like there is no card in the device). I don't know what creates sd0. In fact, I tried putting the new code back, so -sd works, but the invocation you gave me above still fails the same way.

> The code to "hook up the block device" was added to the board init, but
> that's for if=SD devices as added by -sd. the -drive/-device combo
> should work anyway, because you are explicitly hooking it up via -device.
> 
> I guess the QOMification of SD is new, but usually we recommend/prefer
> scripts and clients to use the explicit drive/device syntax above
> instead of the -sd or -hda syntactic sugar. Real actual people can still
> use -sd/-hd -- but they're prone to breakage as you've seen.

Thanks for the explainer. As you can see, I haven't been able to grok the -drive -device syntax yet :)

Andrew