From: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>,
qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [RESEND PATCH 3/3] docs: aspeed: Give an example of booting a kernel
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:09:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211117010947.297540-4-joel@jms.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211117010947.297540-1-joel@jms.id.au>
A common use case for the ASPEED machine is to boot a Linux kernel.
Provide a full example command line.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
---
docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
index 4bed7b5221b4..de408b0364ea 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ Missing devices
Boot options
------------
-The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` option to
-load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from
-the OpenBMC jenkins :
+The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` and ``-dtb`` options
+to load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from the
+OpenBMC jenkins :
https://jenkins.openbmc.org/job/ci-openbmc/lastSuccessfulBuild/
@@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ or directly from the OpenBMC GitHub release repository :
https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/releases
+To boot a kernel directly from a Linux build tree:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb -nographic \
+ -kernel arch/arm/boot/zImage \
+ -dtb arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-ast2600-evb.dtb \
+ -initrd rootfs.cpio
+
The image should be attached as an MTD drive. Run :
.. code-block:: bash
--
2.33.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-17 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-17 1:09 [RESEND PATCH 0/3] docs: aspeed: Minor updates Joel Stanley
2021-11-17 1:09 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/3] docs: aspeed: Add new boards Joel Stanley
2021-11-17 6:41 ` [SPAM] " Cédric Le Goater
2021-11-17 1:09 ` [RESEND PATCH 2/3] docs: aspeed: Update OpenBMC image URL Joel Stanley
2021-11-17 6:42 ` [SPAM] " Cédric Le Goater
2021-11-17 1:09 ` Joel Stanley [this message]
2021-11-17 6:47 ` [SPAM] [RESEND PATCH 3/3] docs: aspeed: Give an example of booting a kernel Cédric Le Goater
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