Hi Paul, On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 1:36 AM Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <paul....@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > On 2023/6/9 17:27, Bin Meng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 9:26 PM Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) > > <paul...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > >> This is an implementation of single-character virtio-console. Part of the > >> patch is based on barebox implementations. > >> > >> To test the patch, we can build qemu_arm64_defconfig target. Enable > >> CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE. And run qemu-system-aarch64 with > >> -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0 \ > >> -chardev file,id=charconsole0,path=/tmp/serialconsolelog \ > >> -device virtconsole,chardev=charconsole0,id=console0 \ > >> > > > > With this command, it still uses the on-board UART but not > > virtio-console. Would you please post test instructions on using > > virtio-console as the U-Boot serial console? Thanks! > > > > Hi Bin, > > Yes. The way to test this is. > I compile U-boot for qemu_arm64_defconfig > Enable the following configs manually. > CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_CONSOLE_MUX=y > CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV=y > > Now run qemu with the following commands. > qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic \ > -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0 \ > -chardev file,id=charconsole0,path=/tmp/serialconsolelog \ > -device virtconsole,chardev=charconsole0,id=console0 \ > -bios /tmp/uboot-qemu-clang/u-boot.bin > > In U-boot prompt, > we run > 1. virtio scan > 2. coninfo > In coninfo, we can see there is a new console device called virtio-console#XX > Then. > 3. setenv stdout pl011@9000000,virtio-console#XX > And then all the output will also be output to /tmp/serialconsolelog on host. > > This is the minimum example of testing the driver. > If we want to test it more then we might need to modify the -chardev to not > use a file. > For example, we can use a telnet server. > -chardev socket,id=charconsole0,host=127.0.0.1,port=10023,telnet=on,server > > After set stdin and stdout to pl011@9000000,virtio-console#XX > We can use "telnet localhost 10023" to access the U-boot prompt in qemu. >
Thanks for the instructions. Is it possible to test the virtio-console driver as the U-Boot boot console? I suspect we need to add the DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC flag here and there in the virtio subsystem? Regards, Bin