2018-01-25 11:49 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]>:
> 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
>

When I use -kernel and -initrd instead of -bios in qemu command line,
then the kernel boots successfully.

>
> --
> With best regards,
> Matwey V. Kornilov



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