There is a bit more out there including Aurelien's excellent write up and older Debian images here:
https://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php https://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/ However the web is transitory and git is forever so lets add something to the fine manual. Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.rox...@linaro.org> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> --- docs/system/arm/versatile.rst | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst b/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst index 51221c30a4..d16f20ccae 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/versatile.rst @@ -27,3 +27,35 @@ The Arm Versatile baseboard is emulated with the following devices: devices. - PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card. + +Booting a Linux kernel +---------------------- + +Building a current Linux kernel with ``versatile_defconfig`` should be +enough to get something running. + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ export ARCH=arm + $ export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- + $ make versatile_defconfig + $ make + +You may want to enable some additional modules if you want to boot +something from the SCSI interface:: + + CONFIG_PCI=y + CONFIG_PCI_VERSATILE=y + CONFIG_SCSI=y + CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y + +You can then boot with a command line like: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ qemu-system-arm -machine type=versatilepb \ + -serial mon:stdio \ + -drive if=scsi,driver=file,filename=debian-buster-armel-rootfs.ext4 \ + -kernel zImage \ + -dtb versatile-pb.dtb \ + -append "console=ttyAMA0 ro root=/dev/sda" -- 2.20.1
