I'm in the process of building xen-image-minimal for my Raspberry Pi 4 Compute
Module and am hitting some issues when running the image on physical hardware.
Upon inspecting the boot partition of the sd-card, I noticed that the image
only contained the dtb for the Raspberry Pi 4B; this makes sense when I look at
xen-raspberrypi4-64.inc:
# Override the meta-raspberrypi default kernel preference
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto"
KERNEL_DEVICETREE ?= "broadcom/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb"
Compared with the device tree blobs declared in meta-raspberrypi's
raspberrypi4-64.conf:
RPI_KERNEL_DEVICETREE = " \
broadcom/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb \
broadcom/bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb \
broadcom/bcm2711-rpi-cm4.dtb \
"
Looking into it further, it seems that the device tree listing in the kernel
used in the xen-image-minimal build doesn't contain the newer firmware blobs
contained in meta-raspberrypi, which causes devices like ethernet to fail to
start up when the image finally boots.
I've tried adding the bcm2711-rpi-cm4 firmware blob to the SD card manually,
but that causes u-boot to fail with the error "Bad Linux ARM64 Image Magic!"
after the Boot Xen step in output. I also tried manually replacing the
bootfiles written by the xen sd card image with the latest blobs from
meta-raspberrypi's packages, but once the OS boots I find that xen is no longer
running, making me suspect I screwed up the configuration somewhere.
Is this something I can trivially fix? Is there a way for me to override the
device tree selection used by the minimal xen image in my local.conf? Or do I
need to investigate patching one of the meta-virtualization recipes?
(Apologies if I've used any of the wrong lingo/terms here; still new to
RasPi/Yocto/Xen :D)
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