According to the "Devicetree Specification, Release v0.2" 'model' is a required property of the root node.
Some software like the Debian flash-kernel package rely on this property to identify boards. The patch sets the model property to 'qemu,virt'. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> --- v2 use the recommended format of the model property --- hw/arm/virt.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c index 281ddcdf6e..abe366895a 100644 --- a/hw/arm/virt.c +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c @@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ static void create_fdt(VirtMachineState *vms) vms->fdt = fdt; /* Header */ + qemu_fdt_setprop_string(fdt, "/", "model", "qemu,virt"); qemu_fdt_setprop_string(fdt, "/", "compatible", "linux,dummy-virt"); qemu_fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, "/", "#address-cells", 0x2); qemu_fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, "/", "#size-cells", 0x2); -- 2.19.1