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>
Subject: [PATCH v3 10/10] docs/system/arm/aspeed: Support vbootrom for AST2700
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:43:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250416034327.315714-11-jamin_lin@aspeedtech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250416034327.315714-1-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>
---
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 97fd6a0e7f..c87a2cf796 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
@@ -250,7 +250,14 @@ under Linux), use :
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
@@ -270,6 +277,26 @@ 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-16 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-16 3:43 [PATCH v3 00/10] Support vbootrom for AST2700 Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0: Rename variable sram_name to name in ast2700 realize Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 20:24 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0 Introduce vbootrom memory region Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 20:24 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] hw/arm/aspeed: Add vbootrom support on AST2700 EVB machines Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 20:24 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] hw/arm/aspeed: Reuse rom_size variable for vbootrom setup Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 20:24 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] hw/arm/aspeed: Add support for loading vbootrom image via "-bios" Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 20:24 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-04-17 2:32 ` Jamin Lin
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] pc-bios: Add AST27x0 vBootrom Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 20:23 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-04-17 2:29 ` Jamin Lin
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] tests/functional/aspeed: Move I2C test into shared helper for AST2700 reuse Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] tests/functional/aspeed: Update test ASPEED SDK v09.06 Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 3:43 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] tests/functional/aspeed: Add to test vbootrom for AST2700 Jamin Lin via
2025-04-16 3:43 ` Jamin Lin via [this message]
2025-04-16 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] docs/system/arm/aspeed: Support " Nabih Estefan
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