>>>> Just trying the F21 beta (and Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21-20141117-sda.raw) >>>> under >>>> qemu. Seems like these versions both require explicitly passing in a dtb >>>> to >>>> qemu to actually boot. Well, maybe it's booting and I'm just not getting >>>> any >>>> serial output, can't really tell. >>>> >>>> Passing a dtb to qemu wasn't required for the F20 GA release at least, >>>> and >>>> still isn't required with F21 qemu-system-arm, so presumably it's not a >>>> qemu >>>> regression. >> >> >> Fedora 21 requires the use of a dtb to boot the multiplatform kernel. This >> changed >> around the 3.16 RC's (iirc). >> >>>> >>>> Having to pass a dtb is kind of a pain for management tools, it's >>>> another >>>> file >>>> that needs to handled. And the docs say it shouldn't be required: >>>> >>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation#For_Versatile_Express_Emulation_with_QEMU >> >> >> Thanks, I will adjust the page. >> > > Medium/long term we should consider changing the docs to recommend using > qemu-system-arm -M virt, since that's where all the virt improvements are > generally going to take place, and it doesn't require an explicit dtb (since > it generates ones behind the scene). That will also be the virt machine type > used for aarch64, so it will be nice to have parity there. That certainly sounds the best route. Does that allow the use of virtio* for storage/network/display etc? Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
