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| -rw-r--r-- | board/arm/foundation-v8/readme.txt | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configs/arm_foundationv8_defconfig | 15 |
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diff --git a/board/arm/foundation-v8/readme.txt b/board/arm/foundation-v8/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3f8d4ef46 --- /dev/null +++ b/board/arm/foundation-v8/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +This is the support for the ARM Foundation v8 machine emulated by the +ARM software simulator of the AArch64 architecture. + +First, one has to download the AArch64 software simulator from: + + https://silver.arm.com/download/download.tm?pv=1317469 + +Then, use the arm_foundationv8_defconfig configuration to build your +Buildroot system. + +Note that the Busybox build will fail due to the lack of rpc/rpc.h +(the AArch64 toolchain does not have RPC support). Run 'make +busybox-menuconfig', and in 'Linux System Utilities', disable the +option 'Support mounting NFS file systems on Linux < 2.6.23' and +restart the build. This problem will be fix in upcomins versions of +Buildroot. + +Finally, boot your system with: + + ${LOCATION_OF_FOUNDATIONV8_SIMULATOR}/Foundation_v8 \ + --image output/images/linux-system.axf \ + --block-device output/images/rootfs.ext2 \ + --network=nat + +You can get network access from within the simulated environment +by requesting an IP address using DHCP (run the command 'udhcpc'). diff --git a/configs/arm_foundationv8_defconfig b/configs/arm_foundationv8_defconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7a50b1ad5 --- /dev/null +++ b/configs/arm_foundationv8_defconfig @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +BR2_aarch64=y +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y +BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyAMA0" +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y +# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set +BR2_TARGET_BOOT_WRAPPER_AARCH64=y +BR2_TARGET_BOOT_WRAPPER_AARCH64_DTS="vexpress-foundation-v8" +BR2_TARGET_BOOT_WRAPPER_AARCH64_BOOTARGS="root=/dev/vda consolelog=9 console=ttyAMA0 rw" +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT=y +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT_REPO_URL="git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linaro-aarch64.git" +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT_VERSION="7181edd0539e195f78adedbb6c3878f9f1e0c4bb" +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="vexpress" +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_TARGET_CUSTOM=y +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_TARGET_NAME="Image" |