| Xilinx Versal Virt (``xlnx-versal-virt``) |
| ========================================= |
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| Xilinx Versal is a family of heterogeneous multi-core SoCs |
| (System on Chip) that combine traditional hardened CPUs and I/O |
| peripherals in a Processing System (PS) with runtime programmable |
| FPGA logic (PL) and an Artificial Intelligence Engine (AIE). |
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| More details here: |
| https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/acap/versal.html |
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| The family of Versal SoCs share a single architecture but come in |
| different parts with different speed grades, amounts of PL and |
| other differences. |
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| The Xilinx Versal Virt board in QEMU is a model of a virtual board |
| (does not exist in reality) with a virtual Versal SoC without I/O |
| limitations. Currently, we support the following cores and devices: |
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| Implemented CPU cores: |
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| - 2 ACPUs (ARM Cortex-A72) |
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| Implemented devices: |
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| - Interrupt controller (ARM GICv3) |
| - 2 UARTs (ARM PL011) |
| - An RTC (Versal built-in) |
| - 2 GEMs (Cadence MACB Ethernet MACs) |
| - 8 ADMA (Xilinx zDMA) channels |
| - 2 SD Controllers |
| - OCM (256KB of On Chip Memory) |
| - XRAM (4MB of on chip Accelerator RAM) |
| - DDR memory |
| - BBRAM (36 bytes of Battery-backed RAM) |
| - eFUSE (3072 bytes of one-time field-programmable bit array) |
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| QEMU does not yet model any other devices, including the PL and the AI Engine. |
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| Other differences between the hardware and the QEMU model: |
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| - QEMU allows the amount of DDR memory provided to be specified with the |
| ``-m`` argument. If a DTB is provided on the command line then QEMU will |
| edit it to include suitable entries describing the Versal DDR memory ranges. |
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| - QEMU provides 8 virtio-mmio virtio transports; these start at |
| address ``0xa0000000`` and have IRQs from 111 and upwards. |
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| Running |
| """"""" |
| If the user provides an Operating System to be loaded, we expect users |
| to use the ``-kernel`` command line option. |
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| Users can load firmware or boot-loaders with the ``-device loader`` options. |
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| When loading an OS, QEMU generates a DTB and selects an appropriate address |
| where it gets loaded. This DTB will be passed to the kernel in register x0. |
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| If there's no ``-kernel`` option, we generate a DTB and place it at 0x1000 |
| for boot-loaders or firmware to pick it up. |
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| If users want to provide their own DTB, they can use the ``-dtb`` option. |
| These DTBs will have their memory nodes modified to match QEMU's |
| selected ram_size option before they get passed to the kernel or FW. |
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| When loading an OS, we turn on QEMU's PSCI implementation with SMC |
| as the PSCI conduit. When there's no ``-kernel`` option, we assume the user |
| provides EL3 firmware to handle PSCI. |
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| A few examples: |
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| Direct Linux boot of a generic ARM64 upstream Linux kernel: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M xlnx-versal-virt -m 2G \ |
| -serial mon:stdio -display none \ |
| -kernel arch/arm64/boot/Image \ |
| -nic user -nic user \ |
| -device virtio-rng-device,bus=virtio-mmio-bus.0 \ |
| -drive if=none,index=0,file=hd0.qcow2,id=hd0,snapshot \ |
| -drive file=qemu_sd.qcow2,if=sd,index=0,snapshot \ |
| -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -append root=/dev/vda |
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| Direct Linux boot of PetaLinux 2019.2: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M xlnx-versal-virt -m 2G \ |
| -serial mon:stdio -display none \ |
| -kernel petalinux-v2019.2/Image \ |
| -append "rdinit=/sbin/init console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 earlycon=pl011,mmio,0xFF000000,115200n8" \ |
| -net nic,model=cadence_gem,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0 \ |
| -device virtio-rng-device,bus=virtio-mmio-bus.0,rng=rng0 \ |
| -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 |
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| Boot PetaLinux 2019.2 via ARM Trusted Firmware (2018.3 because the 2019.2 |
| version of ATF tries to configure the CCI which we don't model) and U-boot: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M xlnx-versal-virt -m 2G \ |
| -serial stdio -display none \ |
| -device loader,file=petalinux-v2018.3/bl31.elf,cpu-num=0 \ |
| -device loader,file=petalinux-v2019.2/u-boot.elf \ |
| -device loader,addr=0x20000000,file=petalinux-v2019.2/Image \ |
| -nic user -nic user \ |
| -device virtio-rng-device,bus=virtio-mmio-bus.0,rng=rng0 \ |
| -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 |
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| Run the following at the U-Boot prompt: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| Versal> |
| fdt addr $fdtcontroladdr |
| fdt move $fdtcontroladdr 0x40000000 |
| fdt set /timer clock-frequency <0x3dfd240> |
| setenv bootargs "rdinit=/sbin/init maxcpus=1 console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 earlycon=pl011,mmio,0xFF000000,115200n8" |
| booti 20000000 - 40000000 |
| fdt addr $fdtcontroladdr |
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| Boot Linux as DOM0 on Xen via U-Boot: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M xlnx-versal-virt -m 4G \ |
| -serial stdio -display none \ |
| -device loader,file=petalinux-v2019.2/u-boot.elf,cpu-num=0 \ |
| -device loader,addr=0x30000000,file=linux/2018-04-24/xen \ |
| -device loader,addr=0x40000000,file=petalinux-v2019.2/Image \ |
| -nic user -nic user \ |
| -device virtio-rng-device,bus=virtio-mmio-bus.0,rng=rng0 \ |
| -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 |
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| Run the following at the U-Boot prompt: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| Versal> |
| fdt addr $fdtcontroladdr |
| fdt move $fdtcontroladdr 0x20000000 |
| fdt set /timer clock-frequency <0x3dfd240> |
| fdt set /chosen xen,xen-bootargs "console=dtuart dtuart=/uart@ff000000 dom0_mem=640M bootscrub=0 maxcpus=1 timer_slop=0" |
| fdt set /chosen xen,dom0-bootargs "rdinit=/sbin/init clk_ignore_unused console=hvc0 maxcpus=1" |
| fdt mknode /chosen dom0 |
| fdt set /chosen/dom0 compatible "xen,multiboot-module" |
| fdt set /chosen/dom0 reg <0x00000000 0x40000000 0x0 0x03100000> |
| booti 30000000 - 20000000 |
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| Boot Linux as Dom0 on Xen via ARM Trusted Firmware and U-Boot: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M xlnx-versal-virt -m 4G \ |
| -serial stdio -display none \ |
| -device loader,file=petalinux-v2018.3/bl31.elf,cpu-num=0 \ |
| -device loader,file=petalinux-v2019.2/u-boot.elf \ |
| -device loader,addr=0x30000000,file=linux/2018-04-24/xen \ |
| -device loader,addr=0x40000000,file=petalinux-v2019.2/Image \ |
| -nic user -nic user \ |
| -device virtio-rng-device,bus=virtio-mmio-bus.0,rng=rng0 \ |
| -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 |
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| Run the following at the U-Boot prompt: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| Versal> |
| fdt addr $fdtcontroladdr |
| fdt move $fdtcontroladdr 0x20000000 |
| fdt set /timer clock-frequency <0x3dfd240> |
| fdt set /chosen xen,xen-bootargs "console=dtuart dtuart=/uart@ff000000 dom0_mem=640M bootscrub=0 maxcpus=1 timer_slop=0" |
| fdt set /chosen xen,dom0-bootargs "rdinit=/sbin/init clk_ignore_unused console=hvc0 maxcpus=1" |
| fdt mknode /chosen dom0 |
| fdt set /chosen/dom0 compatible "xen,multiboot-module" |
| fdt set /chosen/dom0 reg <0x00000000 0x40000000 0x0 0x03100000> |
| booti 30000000 - 20000000 |
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| BBRAM File Backend |
| """""""""""""""""" |
| BBRAM can have an optional file backend, which must be a seekable |
| binary file with a size of 36 bytes or larger. A file with all |
| binary 0s is a 'blank'. |
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| To add a file-backend for the BBRAM: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| -drive if=pflash,index=0,file=versal-bbram.bin,format=raw |
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| To use a different index value, N, from default of 0, add: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| -global xlnx,bbram-ctrl.drive-index=N |
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| eFUSE File Backend |
| """""""""""""""""" |
| eFUSE can have an optional file backend, which must be a seekable |
| binary file with a size of 3072 bytes or larger. A file with all |
| binary 0s is a 'blank'. |
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| To add a file-backend for the eFUSE: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| -drive if=pflash,index=1,file=versal-efuse.bin,format=raw |
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| To use a different index value, N, from default of 1, add: |
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| .. code-block:: bash |
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| -global xlnx,efuse.drive-index=N |
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| .. warning:: |
| In actual physical Versal, BBRAM and eFUSE contain sensitive data. |
| The QEMU device models do **not** encrypt nor obfuscate any data |
| when holding them in models' memory or when writing them to their |
| file backends. |
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| Thus, a file backend should be used with caution, and 'format=luks' |
| is highly recommended (albeit with usage complexity). |
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| Better yet, do not use actual product data when running guest image |
| on this Xilinx Versal Virt board. |