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_...@aspeedtech.com> Reviewed-by: Nabih Estefan <nabiheste...@google.com> --- docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst index 97fd6a0e7f..e15e276a48 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Aspeed family boards (``ast2500-evb``, ``ast2600-evb``, ``ast2700-evb``, ``bletchley-bmc``, ``fuji-bmc``, ``fby35-bmc``, ``fp5280g2-bmc``, ``g220a-bmc``, ``palmetto-bmc``, ``qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc``, ``qcom-firework-bmc``, ``quanta-q71l-bmc``, ``rainier-bmc``, ``romulus-bmc``, ``sonorapass-bmc``, ``supermicrox11-bmc``, ``supermicrox11spi-bmc``, ``tiogapass-bmc``, ``witherspoon-bmc``, ``yosemitev2-bmc``) +Aspeed family boards (``ast2500-evb``, ``ast2600-evb``, ``bletchley-bmc``, ``fuji-bmc``, ``fby35-bmc``, ``fp5280g2-bmc``, ``g220a-bmc``, ``palmetto-bmc``, ``qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc``, ``qcom-firework-bmc``, ``quanta-q71l-bmc``, ``rainier-bmc``, ``romulus-bmc``, ``sonorapass-bmc``, ``supermicrox11-bmc``, ``supermicrox11spi-bmc``, ``tiogapass-bmc``, ``witherspoon-bmc``, ``yosemitev2-bmc``) ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== The QEMU Aspeed machines model BMCs of various OpenPOWER systems and @@ -39,10 +39,6 @@ AST2600 SoC based machines : - ``qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc`` Qualcomm DC-SCM V1 BMC - ``qcom-firework-bmc`` Qualcomm Firework BMC -AST2700 SoC based machines : - -- ``ast2700-evb`` Aspeed AST2700 Evaluation board (Cortex-A35) - Supported devices ----------------- @@ -247,10 +243,78 @@ under Linux), use : -M ast2500-evb,bmc-console=uart3 +Aspeed 2700 family boards (``ast2700-evb``) +================================================================== + +The QEMU Aspeed machines model BMCs of Aspeed evaluation boards. +They are based on different releases of the Aspeed SoC : +the AST2700 with quad cores ARM Cortex-A35 64 bits CPUs (1.6GHz) + +The SoC comes with RAM, Gigabit ethernet, USB, SD/MMC, USB, SPI, I2C, +etc. + +AST2700 SoC based machines : + +- ``ast2700-evb`` Aspeed AST2700 Evaluation board (Cortex-A35) + +Supported devices +----------------- + * Interrupt Controller + * Timer Controller + * RTC Controller + * I2C Controller + * System Control Unit (SCU) + * SRAM mapping + * X-DMA Controller (basic interface) + * Static Memory Controller (SMC or FMC) - Only SPI Flash support + * SPI Memory Controller + * USB 2.0 Controller + * SD/MMC storage controllers + * SDRAM controller (dummy interface for basic settings and training) + * Watchdog Controller + * GPIO Controller (Master only) + * UART + * Ethernet controllers + * Front LEDs (PCA9552 on I2C bus) + * LPC Peripheral Controller (a subset of subdevices are supported) + * Hash/Crypto Engine (HACE) - Hash support only. TODO: Crypto + * ADC + * eMMC Boot Controller (dummy) + * PECI Controller (minimal) + * I3C Controller + * Internal Bridge Controller (SLI dummy) + +Missing devices +--------------- + * Coprocessor support + * PWM and Fan Controller + * Slave GPIO Controller + * Super I/O Controller + * PCI-Express 1 Controller + * Graphic Display Controller + * MCTP Controller + * Mailbox Controller + * Virtual UART + * eSPI Controller + +Boot options +------------ + +Images can be downloaded from the ASPEED Forked OpenBMC GitHub release repository : + + https://github.com/AspeedTech-BMC/openbmc/releases + 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 +334,26 @@ 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
