Re: Hang while trying to boot armv7 on qemu-system-arm

On Mon, 16 May 2022 09:11:05 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 03:21:50PM +0100, Micha?? G??rny wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > [...] I've been trying to boot armv7 via qemu following the recipe on
> > wiki [1] but without success.
> > 
> > I've been trying the armv7 images from FTP, 12.2 in GENERICSD and RPI2
> > variants, and 12.1 in GENERICSD variant.  In all cases, the system
> > seemed to hang [after these lines]:
> > 
> > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> > Using DTB provided by EFI at 0x47dfd000.
> > Kernel entry at 0x57e00180...
> > Kernel args: (null)
> 
> I've just tried following the same wiki recipe with GENERICSD images
> for 12.3 and 13.1-RC4, with the same outcome, regardless of the QEMU
> version.  How to proceed from here?  Is wiki recipe missing important
> details?  If it works for someone, could you guys share exact versions
> of QEMU, U-Boot, FreeBSD version and image type you're using?  Thanks,
> 
> ./danfe
> 
> > [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuRecipes#armv7
> 

GENERICSD doesn't have the QEMU u-boot.
We cannot add it as it have the same name than the u-boot file for
RPI-B.
So what you need to do is to pkg install u-boot-qemu-arm and copy the
u-boot.bin from there in the image.

 Cheers,

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@FreeBSD.org>