On 6 January 2014 20:26, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 6 January 2014 19:46, Ryan Harkin <ryan.har...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to fire up an ARM fastmodel using a virtio block device rather
> > than the emulated MMC block device.
> >
> > UEFI is reading the kernel & DTB off the virtio device, so I know the
> device
> > is present.
>
> > So far, I don't see any vda devices being enumerated (or any other virtio
> > messages) and it rootwaits for /dev/vda2.
>
> Stupid question: does the DTB you're passing to the kernel
> definitely have the virtio-mmio devices in it? (hopefully in the
> right locations).
>

OMG, I think my brain has been in deep sleep.  No, the DTB doesn't have
virtio-mmio.

I'll try it again tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure that's it.  Thanks!


> I generally when trying to debug QEMU virtio-mmio found the
> kernel a bit less than chatty about what was happening; if you
> need to debug this further it might be worth throwing printk
> statements into the appropriate bits of the kernel, to see if
> it's not looking for a virtio-mmio transport, or if it is but it
> doesn't find it (bad magic number) or if it is and finds it but
> doesn't start the backend for some reason.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>
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