This test boots a Linux kernel on a CubieBoard and verify
the serial output is working.
The kernel image and DeviceTree blob are built by the Armbian
project (based on Debian):
https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/
The cpio image used comes from the linux-build-test project:
https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test
If ARM is a target being built, "make check-acceptance" will
automatically include this test by the use of the "arch:arm" tags.
Alternatively, this test can be run using:
$ avocado --show=console run -t machine:cubieboard tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
console: Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
console: Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
console: Linux version 4.20.7-sunxi (root@armbian.com) (gcc version 7.2.1 20171011 (Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11)) #5.75 SMP Fri Feb 8 09:02:10 CET 2019
console: CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc080] revision 0 (ARMv7), cr=50c5387d
console: CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
console: OF: fdt: Machine model: Cubietech Cubieboard
[...]
console: Boot successful.
console: cat /proc/cpuinfo
console: / # cat /proc/cpuinfo
console: processor : 0
console: model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
console: BogoMIPS : 832.51
[...]
console: Hardware : Allwinner sun4i/sun5i Families
console: Revision : 0000
console: Serial : 0000000000000000
console: cat /proc/iomem
console: / # cat /proc/iomem
console: 01c00000-01c0002f : system-control@1c00000
console: 01c02000-01c02fff : dma-controller@1c02000
console: 01c05000-01c05fff : spi@1c05000
console: 01c0b080-01c0b093 : mdio@1c0b080
console: 01c0c000-01c0cfff : lcd-controller@1c0c000
console: 01c0d000-01c0dfff : lcd-controller@1c0d000
console: 01c0f000-01c0ffff : mmc@1c0f000
[...]
PASS (54.35 s)
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20191230110953.25496-2-f4bug@amsat.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
===========
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
.. code-block:: shell
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the CODING_STYLE.rst file.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
* `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
* `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
* `<https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/>`_
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
* `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_
* `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_
* #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_