On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 6:48 AM Daniel Henrique Barboza
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Add documentation for the new riscv-server-ref board.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <[email protected]>
> ---
>  docs/system/riscv/riscv-server-ref.rst | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  docs/system/target-riscv.rst           |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 docs/system/riscv/riscv-server-ref.rst
>
> diff --git a/docs/system/riscv/riscv-server-ref.rst 
> b/docs/system/riscv/riscv-server-ref.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..7803133b77
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> +++ b/docs/system/riscv/riscv-server-ref.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +
> +RISC-V Server Platform Reference board (``riscv-server-ref``)
> +=============================================================
> +
> +The RISC-V Server Platform specification `spec`_ defines a standardized
> +set of hardware and software capabilities that portable system software,
> +such as OS and hypervisors, can rely on being present in a RISC-V server
> +platform.  This machine aims to emulate this specification, providing
> +an environment for firmware/OS development and testing.
> +
> +`spec`_ is version 1.0 at the introduction of this board.  New spec versions
> +might trigger a revision of the emulation itself, which will strive to always
> +match the latest version available.  In case the emulation changes aren't
> +backwards compatible we'll introduce a versioning scheme, probably via
> +a machine property, to allow older SW to run with older spec versions.
> +
> +The main features included in the riscv-server-ref board are:
> +
> +* IOMMU platform device (riscv-iommu-sys)
> +* AIA
> +* PCIe AHCI
> +* PCIe NIC
> +* No virtio mmio bus
> +* No fw_cfg device
> +* No ACPI table
> +* Minimal device tree nodes
> +
> +There are multiple ways of using this reference board, some of them being:
> +
> +* BIOS: u-boot-spl.bin; SD-CARD: <disk_containing_FIT>; NVME: <distro_disk>
> +* BIOS: fw_dynamic.bin; KERNEL: u-boot.bin; NVME: <distro_disk>
> +* BIOS: fw_dynamic.bin; KERNEL: EDK2.fd; NVME: <distro_disk>
> +* BIOS: fw_dynamic.bin; KERNEL: <linux_image>; INITRD: <busybox_initrd>

Can we add a test case that boots something?

Alistair

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