This covers the bulk of the information originally present in https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/ArmPlatformPkg-AArch64 regarding building and running the Foundation/Base FVP Platforms.
The sections on fetching source have been delegated to the root Readme.md Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1 Signed-off-by: Nariman Poushin <[email protected]> --- Changes from v5: - Properly fixed (rather tha NOT) fix the prebuilt_tools repo url Platform/ARM/Readme.md | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Readme.md | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Platform/ARM/Readme.md diff --git a/Platform/ARM/Readme.md b/Platform/ARM/Readme.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d343e7a --- /dev/null +++ b/Platform/ARM/Readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +== Introduction == + +These instructions explain how to get an edk2/edk2-platforms build running +on the ARM Base FVP, which is a software model provided by ARM (for free) +, which models a Cortex A core with various peripherals. More information +can be found here: +https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms + +<b>Requirement:</b> +* A 32-bit or 64-bit Linux host machine. +* Visual Studio is not officially supported, experimental support can be found here: +[https://git.linaro.org/people/leif.lindholm/edk2.git/log/?h=aarch64-vs] + +== Build EDK2 Tianocore == + +<pre>cd $(WORKSPACE)/edk2</pre>For the Foundation and Base FVPs (defined by the DSC file Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg/ArmVExpress-FVP-AArch64.dsc): +<pre>build -a AARCH64 -p Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg/ArmVExpress-FVP-AArch64.dsc -t GCC5</pre> + +Once built, the edk2 image is the following file Build/ArmVExpress-FVP-AArch64/DEBUG_GCC5/FV/FVP_AARCH64_EFI.fd + +=== Run edk2/edk2-platforms on the ARM Base Platform FVP === + +In order to run the binary we have just built there are a few steps we need to +go through, we need to get a model, a set of prebuilts (where we will swap out +the edk2 image with our own) and the tool with which we will swap out the +prebuilt edk2 image. + +We will also rely on the "run_model" script that comes with the prebuilts, it +is entirely possible to run the model without this but would require quite a bit +of knowledge regarding the areguments ARM fastmodel (documentation can be found here: +https://developer.arm.com/docs/100966/1101/programming-reference-for-base-fvps/base-platform-revc-features) +however the manual set of the FVP is outside the scope of this document. If you are interested +please consult the documentation. + +It's recommended you create a folder where you download the prebuilts and +required tool and copy your edk2 image in to it, as the run script expects +the binaries in the same directory. + +1) Download the Base FVP from here https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms + + - Select Armv8-A Base Platform FVP based on Fast Models 11.4 + - It has a click through license but is free. + +2) Download the 18.10 Linaro ARM Landing Team release for FVP booting UEFI +https://releases.linaro.org/members/arm/platforms/18.10/fvp-uefi.zip + +3) Download the prebuilt fiptool from https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/arm/prebuilt_tools.git + +4) Update the fip.bin image from fvp-uefi.zip by running the following command: + + fiptool update --nt-fw=[path to binary built above] fip.bin + +5) Execute the FVP run_model.sh script from fvp-uefi.zip and provide a path to the FVP binaries +downloaded in step 1): + + MODEL=[path to FVP binary] ./run_model.sh + +This expects the contents of fvp-uefi.zip, the bl1.bin and fip.bin (which is +the file we modify), to be in the same directory as the run_model.sh script. + +This should be sufficient to provide a build/run/debug environment for aarch64. +<!-- [[Category:ARM]] --> diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 6ad5953..6748826 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -206,9 +206,7 @@ they will be documented with the platform. * [Overdrive](Platform/AMD/OverdriveBoard) * [Overdrive 1000](Platform/SoftIron/Overdrive1000Board) -## ARM -* [Juno](Platform/ARM/JunoPkg) -* [Versatile Express](Platform/ARM/VExpressPkg) +## [ARM](Platform/ARM/Readme.md) ## Hisilicon * [D02](Platform/Hisilicon/D02) -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
