The number of MACs supported by an Aspeed SoC is defined by "macs_num"
under the SoC model, that is two for the AST2400 and AST2500 and four
for the AST2600. The model initializes the maximum number of supported
MACs but the number of realized devices is capped by the number of
network device back-ends defined on the command line. This can leave
unrealized devices hanging around in the QOM composition tree.
To get virtual hardware that matches the physical hardware, you have
to pass exactly as many -nic options as there are MACs, and some of
them must be -nic none:
* Machines ast2500-evb, palmetto-bmc, romulus-bmc, sonorapass-bmc,
swift-bmc, and witherspoon-bmc: two -nic, and the second one must be
-nic none.
* Machine ast2600-evb: four -nic, the first one must be -nic none.
* Machine tacoma-bmc: four nic, the first two and the last one must be
-nic none.
Modify the machine initialization to define which MACs are attached to
a network device back-end using a bit-field property "macs-mask" and
let the SoC realize all network devices.
The default setting of "macs-mask" is "use MAC0" only, which works for
all our AST2400 and AST2500 machines. The AST2600 machines have
different configurations. The AST2600 EVB machine activates MAC1, MAC2
and MAC3 and the Tacoma BMC machine activates MAC2.
Incompatible CLI change: -nic options now apply to *active* MACs:
MAC1, MAC2, MAC3 for ast2600-evb, MAC2 for tacoma-bmc, and MAC0 for
all the others.
The machines now always get all MACs as they should. Visible in "info
qom-tree", here's the change for tacoma-bmc:
/machine (tacoma-bmc-machine)
/peripheral (container)
/peripheral-anon (container)
/soc (ast2600-a1)
[...]
/ftgmac100[0] (ftgmac100)
/ftgmac100[0] (qemu:memory-region)
/ftgmac100[1] (ftgmac100)
+ /ftgmac100[0] (qemu:memory-region)
/ftgmac100[2] (ftgmac100)
+ /ftgmac100[0] (qemu:memory-region)
/ftgmac100[3] (ftgmac100)
+ /ftgmac100[0] (qemu:memory-region)
[...]
/mii[0] (aspeed-mmi)
/aspeed-mmi[0] (qemu:memory-region)
/mii[1] (aspeed-mmi)
+ /aspeed-mmi[0] (qemu:memory-region)
/mii[2] (aspeed-mmi)
+ /aspeed-mmi[0] (qemu:memory-region)
/mii[3] (aspeed-mmi)
+ /aspeed-mmi[0] (qemu:memory-region)
Also visible in "info qtree"; here's the change for tacoma-bmc:
dev: ftgmac100, id ""
gpio-out "sysbus-irq" 1
aspeed = true
- mac = "52:54:00:12:34:56"
- netdev = "hub0port0"
+ mac = "52:54:00:12:34:57"
+ netdev = ""
mmio 000000001e660000/0000000000002000
dev: ftgmac100, id ""
- aspeed = false
- mac = "00:00:00:00:00:00"
+ gpio-out "sysbus-irq" 1
+ aspeed = true
+ mac = "52:54:00:12:34:58"
netdev = ""
+ mmio 000000001e680000/0000000000002000
dev: ftgmac100, id ""
- aspeed = false
- mac = "00:00:00:00:00:00"
- netdev = ""
+ gpio-out "sysbus-irq" 1
+ aspeed = true
+ mac = "52:54:00:12:34:56"
+ netdev = "hub0port0"
+ mmio 000000001e670000/0000000000002000
dev: ftgmac100, id ""
- aspeed = false
- mac = "00:00:00:00:00:00"
+ gpio-out "sysbus-irq" 1
+ aspeed = true
+ mac = "52:54:00:12:34:59"
netdev = ""
+ mmio 000000001e690000/0000000000002000
[...]
dev: aspeed-mmi, id ""
mmio 000000001e650000/0000000000000008
dev: aspeed-mmi, id ""
+ mmio 000000001e650008/0000000000000008
dev: aspeed-mmi, id ""
+ mmio 000000001e650010/0000000000000008
dev: aspeed-mmi, id ""
+ mmio 000000001e650018/0000000000000008
Inactive MACs will have no peer and QEMU may warn the user with :
qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.0 has no peer
qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.1 has no peer
qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.3 has no peer
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
[Commit message expanded]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200609122339.937862-6-armbru@redhat.com>
===========
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>`_