From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: julien@xen.org, masami.hiramatsu@linaro.org,
andre.przywara@arm.com, stefano.stabellini@linaro.org,
takahiro.akashi@linaro.org, stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
stratos-dev@op-lists.linaro.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 06/15] docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:51:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201105175153.30489-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201105175153.30489-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
docs/system/guest-loader.rst | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
docs/system/index.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 docs/system/guest-loader.rst
diff --git a/docs/system/guest-loader.rst b/docs/system/guest-loader.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..37d03cbd89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/guest-loader.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+..
+ Copyright (c) 2020, Linaro
+
+Guest Loader
+------------
+
+The guest loader is similar to the `generic-loader` although it is
+aimed at a particular use case of loading hypervisor guests. This is
+useful for debugging hypervisors without having to jump through the
+hoops of firmware and boot-loaders.
+
+The guest loader does two things:
+
+ - load blobs (kernels and initial ram disks) into memory
+ - sets platform FDT data so hypervisors can find and boot them
+
+This is what is typically done by a boot-loader like grub using it's
+multi-boot capability. A typical example would look like:
+
+.. parsed-literal::
+
+ |qemu_system| -kernel ~/xen.git/xen/xen \
+ -append "dom0_mem=1G,max:1G loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all" \
+ -device guest-loader,addr=0x42000000,kernel=Image,bootargs="root=/dev/sda2 ro console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen" \
+ -device guest-loader,addr=0x47000000,initrd=rootfs.cpio
+
+In the above example the Xen hypervisor is loaded by the -kernel
+parameter and passed it's boot arguments via -append. The Dom0 guest
+is loaded into the areas of memory. Each blob will get
+`/chosen/module@<addr>` entry in the FDT to indicate it's location and
+size. Additional information can be passed with by using additional
+arguments.
+
+Currently the only supported machines which use FDT data to boot are
+the ARM and RiscV `virt` machines.
+
+Arguments
+^^^^^^^^^
+
+The full syntax of the guest-loader is::
+
+ -device guest-loader,addr=<addr>[,kernel=<file>,[bootargs=<args>]][,initrd=<file>]
+
+``addr=<addr>``
+ This is mandatory and indicates the start address of the blob.
+
+``kernel|initrd=<file>``
+ Indicates the filename of the kernel or initrd blob. Both blobs will
+ have the "multiboot,module" compatibility string as well as
+ "multiboot,kernel" or "multiboot,ramdisk" as appropriate.
+
+``bootargs=<args>``
+ This is an optional field for kernel blobs which will pass command
+ like via the `/chosen/module@<addr>/bootargs` node.
diff --git a/docs/system/index.rst b/docs/system/index.rst
index 3cff0ca98f..b5cfe8ee93 100644
--- a/docs/system/index.rst
+++ b/docs/system/index.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Contents:
ivshmem
linuxboot
generic-loader
+ guest-loader
vnc-security
tls
gdb
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-05 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 17:51 [RFC PATCH 00/15] Xen guest-loader and arm64 build fixes/enhancements Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 01/15] hw/board: promote fdt from ARM VirtMachineState to MachineState Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 19:27 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 20:37 ` Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 02/15] hw/riscv: migrate fdt field to generic MachineState Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 19:24 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-06 3:15 ` Bin Meng
2020-11-06 10:21 ` Alex Bennée
2020-11-06 11:32 ` Bin Meng
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 03/15] device_tree: add qemu_fdt_setprop_string_array helper Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 04/15] hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor guests Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 05/15] docs: move generic-loader documentation into the main manual Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 17:51 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2020-11-19 20:06 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader Alistair Francis
2020-11-19 20:58 ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 07/15] accel/meson: you only need accelerator stubs for softmmu builds Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 18:18 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] meson.build: fix building of Xen support for aarch64 Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 18:20 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 09/15] meson.build: introduce CONFIG_XEN_HVM flag Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 18:21 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 18:47 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 10/15] meson.build: clean-up summary reporting of XEN and it's features Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 19:11 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 11/15] include/hw/xen.h: drop superfluous struct Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 19:15 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 12/15] stubs/xen-hw-stub: drop xenstore_store_pv_console_info stub Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 19:20 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-06 10:27 ` Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] accel/stubs: drop unused cpu.h include Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 19:20 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] xen: only build HVM support under CONFIG_XEN_HVM Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH 15/15] meson.build: build a Xen aware qemu-aarch64-system Alex Bennée
2020-11-05 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 00/15] Xen guest-loader and arm64 build fixes/enhancements no-reply
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