On 11/17/21 02:09, Joel Stanley wrote:
A common use case for the ASPEED machine is to boot a Linux kernel.
Provide a full example command line.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org>
Thanks
C.
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docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
index 4bed7b5221b4..de408b0364ea 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/aspeed.rst
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ Missing devices
Boot options
------------
-The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` option to
-load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from
-the OpenBMC jenkins :
+The Aspeed machines can be started using the ``-kernel`` and ``-dtb`` options
+to load a Linux kernel or from a firmware. Images can be downloaded from the
+OpenBMC jenkins :
https://jenkins.openbmc.org/job/ci-openbmc/lastSuccessfulBuild/
@@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ or directly from the OpenBMC GitHub release repository :
https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/releases
+To boot a kernel directly from a Linux build tree:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb -nographic \
+ -kernel arch/arm/boot/zImage \
+ -dtb arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-ast2600-evb.dtb \
+ -initrd rootfs.cpio
+
The image should be attached as an MTD drive. Run :
.. code-block:: bash
