How to execute u-boot on qemu-system-arm

ruly-rudel — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 03:14:41 +0000

Summary

Currently, I check u-boot execution on qemu-system-arm with VExpress A9 environment. In this document, an u-boot built for ARM EABI with hardware-floating-point-instructions at ELF format is attached directly to the qemu DRAM area using -kernel option. Boot from Flash device will be next step.

Environment

ubuntu-ja-16.04
gcc 5.4.0
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 5.4.0
qemu 2.5.0
u-boot 2017.11

Tool instration

$ sudo apt-get install g++-arm-linxu-gnueabihf
$ sudo apt-get install qemu

Build u-boot

At first, get a tarball of u-boot 2017.11 from Official u-boot distribution site.

$ bzcat u-boot-2017.11.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
$ cd u-boot-2017.11
$ make vexpress_ca9x4_defconfig CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
$ make all CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-

Execute u-boot on qemu

-nographic option disables framebuffer and redirect tty via UART to stdin/stdout. Also, with -no-reboot option causes reset command on u-boot to quit qemu.