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ArmPlatformPkg AArch64
These instructions are to build and run UEFI on the AArch64 Foundation or Base FVPs (Fixed Virtual Platforms). FVPs are fixed configurations of ARM Fast Models; they are also known as RTSMs (Real Time System Models). The Base FVP is an evolution of the VE (Versatile Express) RTSM.
While the AArch64 Foundation FVP is free to download, the Base FVP requires an ARM license. The Base FVP has additional debugging and configuration features.
Requirement:
- A 32-bit or 64-bit Linux host machine. Support for MS Windows-based toolchains has not been added to the EDK2 BaseTools.
1) Get the requirements
A Universally Unique Id (UUID) header. Needed to build the EDK2 BaseTools. On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install uuid-dev
2) Download the sources
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2 edk2 --username guest
1) Download the AArch64 GNU toolchain:
wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.07/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.07-1_linux.tar.xz tar xf gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.07-1_linux.tar.xz
2) Build EDK2:
cd $(WORKROOT)/edk2The first time you create your environment, you will need to build the EDK2 source tree
. edksetup.sh `pwd`/BaseTools make -C BaseTools
Note: You might need to unset some environment variables if you are working in the same shell and a different EDK2 repository than your usual EDK2 development environment.
Otherwise some conflicts might exist between both EDK2 development environments.
unset ARCH WORKSPACE
- For the Foundation FVP (defined by the DSC file ArmPlatformPkg?/ArmVExpressPkg/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4-foundation.dsc):
GCC47_AARCH64_PREFIX=<path-to-aarch64-gcc>/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.07-1_linux/bin/ build -a AARCH64 -p ArmPlatformPkg/ArmVExpressPkg/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4-foundation.dsc -t GCC47
- For the Base FVP (defined by the DSC file ArmPlatformPkg?/ArmVExpressPkg/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4.dsc):
GCC47_AARCH64_PREFIX=<path-to-aarch64-gcc>/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.07-1_linux/bin/ build -a AARCH64 -p ArmPlatformPkg/ArmVExpressPkg/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4.dsc -t GCC47
Note 1: To build the release build, add '-b RELEASE'. Here's an example with the Foundation FVP:
GCC47_AARCH64_PREFIX=<path-to-aarch64-gcc>/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.07-1_linux/bin/ build -a AARCH64 -p ArmPlatformPkg/ArmVExpressPkg/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4-foundation.dsc -t GCC47 -b RELEASE
Note 2: The UEFI Firmware is the following file:
- Foundation FVP: Build/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4-foundation/{DEBUG|RELEASE}_GCC47/FV/RTSM_VE_FOUNDATIONV8_EFI.fd
- Base FVP: Build/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4/{DEBUG|RELEASE}_GCC47/FV/RTSM_VE_AEMV8_EFI.fd
1) Get the AArch64 Linux sources
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64.git -b soc-armv8-model cd linux-aarch64
2) Build the AArch64 kernel with Virtio support
make ARCH=arm64 mrproper make ARCH=arm64 defconfig
Enable Virtio Disk and Ext4 support in the kernel. The Linaro disk file-system uses Ext4.
make ARCH=arm64 menuconfig Device Drivers ---> Virtio drivers ---> <*> Platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio devices Device Drivers ---> [*] Block devices ---> <*> Virtio block driver File systems ---> <*> The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem
Build the kernel.
make -j4 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-aarch64-gcc>/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.06_linux/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-
You should get the binaries:
- arch/arm64/boot/Image
- arch/arm64/boot/dts/foundation-v8.dtb
- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rtsm_ve-aemv8a.dtb
1) Download the Foundation FVP: http://www.arm.com/fvp
Decompress the AArch64 Foundation FVP
tar xf ~/FM000-KT-00035-r0p8-48rel5.tgz
2) The current version of the Foundation FVP can only start an ELF image. To workaround this limitation, we use the 'uefi-aarch64-bootstrap' to start the UEFI image on this model.
To build the 'uefi-aarch64-bootstrap':
pushd ArmPlatformPkg/ArmVExpressPkg/Scripts/uefi-aarch64-bootstrap/ CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-aarch64-gcc>/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.06_linux/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu- make popd
3) The Foundation FVP takes an option for an ELF file to be loaded as well as an option to load a binary data blob into RAM.
Linux kernel (filename = 'Image') and the Device Tree Binary (filename = 'foundation-v8.dtb') are expected to be found in the directory where the model is started from.
A file system example can be downloaded from Linaro:
wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.06/openembedded/aarch64/vexpress64-openembedded_minimal-armv8_20130623-376.img.gz gunzip vexpress64-openembedded_minimal-armv8_20130623-376.img.gz
The file-system needs some minimal preparation:
mkdir tmp fdisk -lu vexpress64-openembedded_minimal-armv8_20130623-376.img sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((106496 * 512)) vexpress64-openembedded_minimal-armv8_20130623-376.img tmp/ cd tmp sudo ln -s S35mountall.sh etc/rcS.d/S03mountall.sh sudo sh -c "echo 'devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs mode=0755,nosuid 0 0' >> etc/fstab" cd .. sudo umount tmp/
The following command line can be used to run UEFI in the following manner:
$AARCH64_FOUNDATION_MODEL_ROOT/Foundation_v8 --cores=2 --image=ArmPlatformPkg/ArmVExpressPkg/Scripts/uefi-aarch64-bootstrap/uefi-bootstrap-el3-foundation.axf --nsdata=Build/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4-foundation/DEBUG_GCC47/FV/RTSM_VE_FOUNDATIONV8_EFI.fd@0xA0000000 --block-device=<path/to>/vexpress64-openembedded_minimal-armv8_20130623-376.img
Note: Do not use a symbolic link to the file-system image. The model will not be able to read the image file.
The Linux kernel (filename = 'Image') and the Device Tree Binary (filename = 'rtsm_ve-aemv8a.dtb') are expected to be found in the directory where the model is started from.
export PATH=ARM_BASE_AEMV8_ROOT:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=ARM_BASE_AEMV8_ROOT:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH FVP_VE_AEMv8A -C motherboard.flashloader0.fname=Build/ArmVExpress-RTSM-AEMv8Ax4/DEBUG_GCC47/FV/RTSM_VE_AEMV8_EFI.fd