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From: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
To: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>,
	Weiwei Li <liweiwei@iscas.ac.cn>,
	Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>,
	Liu Zhiwei <zhiwei_liu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>,
	Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/3] docs/system: riscv: Add pflash usage details
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 17:40:06 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230526121006.76388-4-sunilvl@ventanamicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230526121006.76388-1-sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>

pflash devices can be used in virt machine for different
purposes like for ROM code or S-mode FW payload. Add a
section in the documentation on how to use pflash devices
for different purposes.

Signed-off-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
---
 docs/system/riscv/virt.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/system/riscv/virt.rst b/docs/system/riscv/virt.rst
index 4b16e41d7f..3e873c67f3 100644
--- a/docs/system/riscv/virt.rst
+++ b/docs/system/riscv/virt.rst
@@ -53,6 +53,35 @@ with the default OpenSBI firmware image as the -bios. It also supports
 the recommended RISC-V bootflow: U-Boot SPL (M-mode) loads OpenSBI fw_dynamic
 firmware and U-Boot proper (S-mode), using the standard -bios functionality.
 
+Using flash devices
+-------------------
+
+The first flash device (pflash0) can contain either ROM code
+or S-mode payload firmware code. If the pflash0 contains the
+ROM code, -bios should be set to none. If -bios is not set to
+none, pflash0 is assumed to contain S-mode payload code.
+
+Firmware images used for pflash should be of size 32 MiB.
+
+To boot as ROM code:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  $ qemu-system-riscv64 -bios none \
+     -blockdev node-name=pflash0,driver=file,read-only=on,filename=<rom_code> \
+     -M virt,pflash0=pflash0 \
+     ... other args ....
+
+To boot as read-only S-mode payload:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  $ qemu-system-riscv64 \
+     -blockdev node-name=pflash0,driver=file,read-only=on,filename=<s-mode_fw_code> \
+     -blockdev node-name=pflash1,driver=file,filename=<s-mode_fw_vars> \
+     -M virt,pflash0=pflash0,pflash1=pflash1 \
+     ... other args ....
+
 Machine-specific options
 ------------------------
 
-- 
2.34.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-26 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-26 12:10 [PATCH v5 0/3] hw/riscv/virt: pflash improvements Sunil V L
2023-05-26 12:10 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] hw/riscv: virt: Assume M-mode FW in pflash0 only when "-bios none" Sunil V L
2023-05-26 12:10 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] riscv/virt: Support using pflash via -blockdev option Sunil V L
2023-05-26 14:04   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-05-26 12:10 ` Sunil V L [this message]
2023-05-26 14:04   ` [PATCH v5 3/3] docs/system: riscv: Add pflash usage details Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-05-26 12:47 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] hw/riscv/virt: pflash improvements Andrea Bolognani
2023-05-31  5:16 ` Anup Patel
2023-05-31 11:34   ` Andrea Bolognani
2023-05-31 13:48     ` Sunil V L

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