qemu/docs/system/riscv/microchip-icicle-kit.rst
Bin Meng d4e28f0eb8 docs/system: riscv: Add documentation for 'microchip-icicle-kit' machine
This adds the documentation to describe what is supported for the
'microchip-icicle-kit' machine, and how to boot the machine in QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Message-id: 20210322075248.136255-2-bmeng.cn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
2021-03-22 21:54:40 -04:00

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Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit (``microchip-icicle-kit``)
=============================================================
Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit integrates a PolarFire SoC, with one
SiFive's E51 plus four U54 cores and many on-chip peripherals and an FPGA.
For more details about Microchip PolarFire SoC, please see:
https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/soc-fpgas/5498-polarfire-soc-fpga
The Icicle Kit board information can be found here:
https://www.microsemi.com/existing-parts/parts/152514
Supported devices
-----------------
The ``microchip-icicle-kit`` machine supports the following devices:
* 1 E51 core
* 4 U54 cores
* Core Level Interruptor (CLINT)
* Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)
* L2 Loosely Integrated Memory (L2-LIM)
* DDR memory controller
* 5 MMUARTs
* 1 DMA controller
* 2 GEM Ethernet controllers
* 1 SDHC storage controller
Boot options
------------
The ``microchip-icicle-kit`` machine can start using the standard -bios
functionality for loading its BIOS image, aka Hart Software Services (HSS_).
HSS loads the second stage bootloader U-Boot from an SD card. It does not
support direct kernel loading via the -kernel option. One has to load kernel
from U-Boot.
The memory is set to 1537 MiB by default which is the minimum required high
memory size by HSS. A sanity check on ram size is performed in the machine
init routine to prompt user to increase the RAM size to > 1537 MiB when less
than 1537 MiB ram is detected.
Boot the machine
----------------
HSS 2020.12 release is tested at the time of writing. To build an HSS image
that can be booted by the ``microchip-icicle-kit`` machine, type the following
in the HSS source tree:
.. code-block:: bash
$ export CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-
$ cp boards/mpfs-icicle-kit-es/def_config .config
$ make BOARD=mpfs-icicle-kit-es
Download the official SD card image released by Microchip and prepare it for
QEMU usage:
.. code-block:: bash
$ wget ftp://ftpsoc.microsemi.com/outgoing/core-image-minimal-dev-icicle-kit-es-sd-20201009141623.rootfs.wic.gz
$ gunzip core-image-minimal-dev-icicle-kit-es-sd-20201009141623.rootfs.wic.gz
$ qemu-img resize core-image-minimal-dev-icicle-kit-es-sd-20201009141623.rootfs.wic 4G
Then we can boot the machine by:
.. code-block:: bash
$ qemu-system-riscv64 -M microchip-icicle-kit -smp 5 \
-bios path/to/hss.bin -sd path/to/sdcard.img \
-nic user,model=cadence_gem \
-nic tap,ifname=tap,model=cadence_gem,script=no \
-display none -serial stdio \
-chardev socket,id=serial1,path=serial1.sock,server=on,wait=on \
-serial chardev:serial1
With above command line, current terminal session will be used for the first
serial port. Open another terminal window, and use `minicom` to connect the
second serial port.
.. code-block:: bash
$ minicom -D unix\#serial1.sock
HSS output is on the first serial port (stdio) and U-Boot outputs on the
second serial port. U-Boot will automatically load the Linux kernel from
the SD card image.
.. _HSS: https://github.com/polarfire-soc/hart-software-services