Re: NetBSD/arm64 on QEMU

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

I just tested this kernel from releng and it booted for me on QEMU 3.0.0:

http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbarm-aarch64/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC64.img.gz


On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Jared McNeill wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
>
> > Is the netbsd.img above an uncompressed 
> > binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC64.img.gz
> > from the release build?
>
> Yep.
>
> > I tried running build.sh release with -m evbarm -a aarch64 and then
> >
> >  gunzip <$release/evbarm/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz >arm64.img
> >  gunzip <$release/evbarm/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC64.img.gz >netbsd.img
> >
> > followed by the commands quoted above, but they failed with:
> >
> >  WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'arm64.img' and probing 
> > guessed raw.
> >           Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, 
> > write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
> >           Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
> >  VNC server running on ::1:5900
> >  rom: requested regions overlap (rom bootloader. free=0x000000004095f6cc, 
> > addr=0x0000000040000000)
> >  qemu-system-aarch64: rom check and register reset failed
>
> Looks like your kernel is not up to date. This was fixed by the following 
> commit:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2018/09/29/msg099606.html
>
> Cheers,
> Jared