[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] hw/arm: Add 'virt' platform

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

This patch series adds a 'virt' platform which uses the
kernel's mach-virt (fully device-tree driven) support
to create a simple minimalist platform intended for
use for KVM VM guests.

The major change here is that I've added a PL011 UART.

Sample command line:

 qemu-system-arm -machine type=virt -display none \
  -kernel zImage \
  -append 'root=/dev/vda rw console=ttyAMA0 rootwait'
  -cpu cortex-a15 \
  -device virtio-blk-device,drive=foo \
  -drive if=none,file=arm-wheezy.img,id=foo \
  -m 2048 -serial stdio

Note that there is no earlyprintk via the PL011 because
there's no defined device tree binding for "hey, here
is your earlyprintk UART".


*** NOTE *** to get the PL011 to work you'll need to
tweak the kernel a bit:

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-virt/virt.c b/arch/arm/mach-virt/virt.c
index b184e57..2b6aceb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-virt/virt.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-virt/virt.c
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@
 #include <linux/of_irq.h>
 #include <linux/of_platform.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/clk-provider.h>
 
 #include <asm/mach/arch.h>
 
 static void __init virt_init(void)
 {
+       of_clk_init(NULL);
        of_platform_populate(NULL, of_default_bus_match_table, NULL, NULL);
 }
 

Otherwise the kernel doesn't ever add the clock to its
list, and then it refuses to probe for the PL011.
(I'm told this isn't really the right fix, though, and
ideally the call should be done in some generic location
rather than in every machine's init function.)

The alternative would be for the kernel to be fixed to
follow its own device tree binding documentation and not
require clocks/clock-names properties on the pl011 node.


Changes from John Rigby's v3->my v4:
 * renamed user-facing machine to just "virt"
 * removed the A9 support (it can't work since the A9 has no
   generic timers)
 * added virtio-mmio transports instead of random set of 'soc' devices
 * instead of updating io_base as we step through adding devices,
   define a memory map with an array (similar to vexpress)
 * folded in some minor fixes from John's aarch64-support patch
 * rather than explicitly doing endian-swapping on FDT cells,
   use fdt APIs that let us just pass in host-endian values
   and let the fdt layer take care of the swapping
 * miscellaneous minor code cleanups and style fixes
Changes v4->v5:
 * removed outdated TODO remarks from commit messages
Changes v5->v6:
 * adjusted the memory map as per Anup's review comments
   (actually made the changes this time!)
Changes v6->v7:
 * added a PL011 UART, at Alex's suggestion (and the accompanying
   fake clock dtb node that this requires)
 * added an irqmap[] in parallel with the memmap[] so that our
   assignment of devices to irq lines is neatly in one place
 * the removal of arm_pic allows us to get rid of an irritating
   array sized to the number of CPUs
 * included the "terminate dtb reservemap" patch since it's a
   dependency to get the kernel to boot

John Rigby (1):
  hw/arm/boot: Allow boards to provide an fdt blob

Peter Maydell (2):
  device_tree.c: Terminate the empty reservemap in create_device_tree()
  hw/arm: Add 'virt' platform

 device_tree.c        |    4 +
 hw/arm/Makefile.objs |    2 +-
 hw/arm/boot.c        |   32 ++--
 hw/arm/virt.c        |  419 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/hw/arm/arm.h |    7 +
 5 files changed, 451 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hw/arm/virt.c

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