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docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com> Message-Id: <20210303173642.3805-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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Copyright (c) 2020, Linaro
Guest Loader
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The guest loader is similar to the ``generic-loader`` although it is
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aimed at a particular use case of loading hypervisor guests. This is
useful for debugging hypervisors without having to jump through the
hoops of firmware and boot-loaders.
The guest loader does two things:
- load blobs (kernels and initial ram disks) into memory
- sets platform FDT data so hypervisors can find and boot them
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This is what is typically done by a boot-loader like grub using its
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multi-boot capability. A typical example would look like:
.. parsed-literal::
|qemu_system| -kernel ~/xen.git/xen/xen \
-append "dom0_mem=1G,max:1G loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all" \
-device guest-loader,addr=0x42000000,kernel=Image,bootargs="root=/dev/sda2 ro console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen" \
-device guest-loader,addr=0x47000000,initrd=rootfs.cpio
In the above example the Xen hypervisor is loaded by the -kernel
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parameter and passed its boot arguments via -append. The Dom0 guest
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is loaded into the areas of memory. Each blob will get
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``/chosen/module@<addr>`` entry in the FDT to indicate its location and
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size. Additional information can be passed with by using additional
arguments.
Currently the only supported machines which use FDT data to boot are
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the ARM and RiscV ``virt`` machines.
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Arguments
^^^^^^^^^
The full syntax of the guest-loader is::
-device guest-loader,addr=<addr>[,kernel=<file>,[bootargs=<args>]][,initrd=<file>]
``addr=<addr>``
This is mandatory and indicates the start address of the blob.
``kernel|initrd=<file>``
Indicates the filename of the kernel or initrd blob. Both blobs will
have the "multiboot,module" compatibility string as well as
"multiboot,kernel" or "multiboot,ramdisk" as appropriate.
``bootargs=<args>``
This is an optional field for kernel blobs which will pass command
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like via the ``/chosen/module@<addr>/bootargs`` node.
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