Re: [PATCH v1 00/14] OvmfPkg/Virtio: Add APIs to map system physical to device address

[Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>]

Hi Laszlo,

On 08/15/2017 05:42 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
[snip]

>>
>> I have been following the steps from
>> https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/UEFIforQEMU
>>
>> qemu-system-aarch64 \
>>   -m 1024 \
>>   -cpu cortex-a57 \
>>   -M virt  \
>>   -bios QEMU_EFI.fd \
>>   -serial stdio
>>
>> I tried this steps with and without my patches and it resulted in the same.
>> It seems like I am missing something in the qemu cli, do I need to pass
>> special dtb file or something similar ?
> 
> The above command line is not right ("-bios"). Please scroll down the
> wiki page, to the section heading saying "Using persistent UEFI
> variables". There it explains how to pad the images and how to use two
> -pflash options. ... Perhaps even that part of the article is a bit
> out-of-date now.
> 
> Basically, today ArmVirtQemu should be used the same way as OVMF, except
> for the padding. The build produces two files:
> - QEMU_EFI.fd (fw binary)
> - QEMU_VARS.fd (varstore template)
> 
> Each should be padded to 64MiB with zeros at the end (write a small
> script for that), then use them with two pflash drives similarly to OVMF.
> 

Still no luck, you can see my log error [1]. I never get to UEFI shell, I have
tried with and without virtio disk.

https://gist.github.com/codomania/0aed024702b817761ee55fd30929200a

I will continuing googling ...