Re: NetBSD/arm64 on QEMU

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

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