2018-01-25 11:11 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]>:
> 2018-01-25 0:28 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>
>>
>> On 24.01.18 20:29, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>>> 2018-01-24 22:05 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24.01.18 18:10, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>>>>> 2018-01-24 19:51 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There is nothing FDT-related at GRUB side. This is why I started to
>>>>> search who is responsible for providing FDT.
>>>>> -no-acpi also doesn't change anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> grub> lsefi
>>>>
>>>> Hm, that is the object list. Maybe it was lsefisystab?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, here FDT is present (b1b621d5-...). How can I dump it from grub console?
>>> If I do it right, then It has correct magic header 0xd00dfeed.
>>
>> Looks all green to me then. I guess you actually get into the kernel
>> then with a working device tree, but just don't see output?
>>
>
> Sure, I've managed to dump and decomile FDT. As far as I don't see any
> output, something is wrong either with serial port or interrupt
> controller?
>
>

Hm, with qemu debug and grub debug on, I see the following:

Jumping to Linux...
Taking exception 4 [Data Abort]
...from EL1 to EL1
...with ESR 0x25/0x96000037
...with DFSR 0x37 DFAR 0xfffdd000


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Matwey V. Kornilov
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