+cc qemu-riscv, Alistar.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 07:24:37AM +0100, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Booting the microchip-icicle-kit machine using the latest PolarFire SoC
> Hart Software Services (HSS) no longer works since Qemu lacks support
> for several registers (clocks, DRAM controller). Also reading from the
> SDCard does not work currently.

On that note, I think the inaccurate docs about polarfire should be
removed. There's a wiki page here with dead links, or links to things
that do not work anymore:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/RISCV#Microchip_PolarFire_SoC_Icicle_Kit
I think the whole section should be removed, find it kinda odd that
there's a polarfire section but not for any other board. Either way,
it's talking about something that just does not work, the current HSS
and Yocto don't boot.

There's also a docs page here:
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/riscv/microchip-icicle-kit.html
that has a copy of the table your patch 4 modifies, that probably should
be updated to match your changes.

In a similar vein to the wiki, it talks about the HSS and booting a
yocto wic image. I think those should be deleted since they don't work.

Alistar/Other RISC-V folks, what do you think? Bin wrote the port but
seems to be AFK and I don't have the capacity to fix any of that stuff
on top of what I already do in my spare time - do you agree that
deleting the now inaccurate docs makes sense?

> In order to allow tests runs for real-time kernels such as RTEMS and
> Zephyr, improve the boot customization. This patch set enables a direct
> run of kernel executables, for example:
> 
> qemu-system-riscv64 -no-reboot -nographic \
>   -serial null -serial mon:stdio \
>   -smp 2 \
>   -bios none \
>   -machine microchip-icicle-kit,clint-timebase-frequency=10000000 \
>   -kernel rtos.elf

The series breaks my usage:
qemu//build/qemu-system-riscv64 -M microchip-icicle-kit \
        -m 3G -smp 5 \
        -kernel vmlinux.bin \
        -dtb riscvpc.dtb \
        -initrd initramfs.cpio.gz \
        -display none -serial null \
        -serial mon:stdio \
        -D qemu.log -d unimp
opensbi-riscv64-generic-fw_dynamic.bin: No such file or directory
qemu-system-riscv64: could not load firmware 
'opensbi-riscv64-generic-fw_dynamic.bin'
make: *** [Makefile:305: qemu-icicle] Error 1

Figure it is likely to be your patch 4? The file does exist, so probably
some sort of path-to-it issues?

Cheers,
Conor.

> 
> Sebastian Huber (5):
>   hw/misc: Add MPFS system reset support
>   hw/riscv: More flexible FDT placement for MPFS
>   hw/riscv: Make FDT optional for MPFS
>   hw/riscv: Allow direct start of kernel for MPFS
>   hw/riscv: Configurable MPFS CLINT timebase freq
> 
>  hw/misc/mchp_pfsoc_sysreg.c        |   7 ++
>  hw/riscv/microchip_pfsoc.c         | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  include/hw/riscv/microchip_pfsoc.h |   1 +
>  3 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 

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