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