Even with -smp 1 you will see the same errors. The problem is because there is nothing to run after OpenSBI jumps to the next stage.
If you load a kernel you will not see the error messages. ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1915027 Title: RISC-V 64, CPUs do ilegal 0x00 write with SMP Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: When QEMU is runt like this: qemu-system-riscv64 -d unimp,guest_errors -smp 8 Other harts will do a illegal write on address 0x00. This could be mostly (i think) because the initial assembly code is only loaded on the first hart and the others do a mess because there is no code to execute. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1915027/+subscriptions