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| author | Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> | 2014-08-25 15:01:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> | 2014-08-25 15:55:05 +0300 |
| commit | 5a1baf00891705168805cde3c073d08c567e75d3 (patch) | |
| tree | ba866f090053dbe2312213965229f912c4815162 | |
| parent | 7c0e1a5afce198c955197cc679152b6254e709d7 (diff) | |
Add Qemu instructions
Our ARMv8 images can be used with qemu - add instructions for
end users.
Change-Id: If42cd965d0d197c21f37856b06f2f951a60ee641
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.textile | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.textile b/INSTALL.textile index ca62106..c10bbfd 100644 --- a/INSTALL.textile +++ b/INSTALL.textile @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ h2. Using pre-built image h3. Prerequisites * Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit or newer on your desktop PC ("www.ubuntu.com":http://www.ubuntu.com) -* Foundation, Versatile Express or Base platform fast model ("Linaro ARMv8 Engineering":http://www.linaro.org/engineering/armv8/) +* Foundation, Versatile Express, Base platform fast model ("Linaro ARMv8 Engineering":http://www.linaro.org/engineering/armv8/) or QEMU 2.1+ * All artifacts for this release downloaded from the above list. * 14.04 linaro-image-tools or later @@ -160,3 +160,14 @@ For Bridged networking, you will need to set up a network TAP as per the "FastMo bc. --network bridged --network-bridge=ARM$USER Details of the Foundation Model's command line options can be found in the "Foundation model documentation":http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0677b/BBAEFJEF.html on ARM's website. + +h3. Using QEMU + +QEMU supports ARMv8 since "2.1 release":"http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.1#ARM". To boot up Linaro image with QEMU, you will need the kernel (filename Image) and selected prebuilt image (file=vexpress64-openembedded_IMAGENAME-armv8_IMAGEDATE-XYZ.img.gz). Uncompress the downloaded image and run: + +bc. qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -machine virt \ + -kernel Image -append 'root=/dev/vda2 rw rootwait mem=1024M console=ttyAMA0,38400n8' \ + -netdev user,id=user0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=user0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=disk \ + -drive if=none,id=disk,file=vexpress64-openembedded_IMAGENAME-armv8_IMAGEDATE-XYZ.img + +See "QEMU manual":"http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html" for details on installing and using Qemu. |