On 24.01.18 17:43, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> 2018-01-24 16:38 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>
>>
>> On 24.01.18 13:15, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There is one more thing that is unclear to me now. As far as I
>>> understand there is no other way except FDT to provide hardware layout
>>> for armv7l kernel. Then, who is responsible for FDT loading? As far as
>>> I understand it is grub2 task to load FDT from the table at
>>> b1b621d5-f19c-41a5-.... And FDT is completely provided by UEFI
>>> firmware. In case of u-boot, dtb file is loaded from the disk by means
>>> of u-boot and placed into memory. What should happen here when OVMF is
>>> used? In theory, it has to be configured to generate FDT from QEMU
>>> config somehow, right? Or pass-through entire FDT from Qemu
>>> hypervisor?
>>
>> It basically passes through the device tree that's generated by QEMU,
>> yes. However, OVMF defaults changed a while back and it only exposes
>> ACPI tables instead of DT in newer versions on AArch64 IIRC.
>>
>> Maybe something went wrong and they changed them for armv7 as well by
>> accident?
>>
> 
> I use latest version of aarch32 OVMF firmware from openSUSE:Factory:ARM.
> Well, then, I suppose, I have to see appropriate EFI driver
> (FdtClientDxe ? ) in the driver list.

I don't think the fact that the driver is loaded tells you anything.

I assume you can't boot the VM properly? Does grub see the DT table?
lsefi in grub should show you iirc.

If it doesn't show it, but instead shows ACPI tables, can you try to
pass -no-acpi to QEMU?


Alex
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