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This page tells how to build Open Firmware as a Coreboot payload and run it under QEMU. You can also run Open Firmware under QEMU without Coreboot: | This page tells how to build Open Firmware as a Coreboot payload and run it under QEMU. You can also run Open Firmware under QEMU without Coreboot: | ||
* You can build a QEMU ROM image directly from code in the OFW tree - see [[Building OFW for QEMU]]. | * You can build a QEMU ROM image directly from code in the OFW tree - see [[Building OFW for QEMU]]. | ||
* You can boot OFW from a conventional BIOS - see [[Building OFW to | * You can boot OFW from a conventional BIOS - see [[Building OFW to Load from BIOS]] | ||
=== Software Requirements === | === Software Requirements === | ||
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=== Building Open Firmware === | === Building Open Firmware === | ||
Download the Open Firmware source: | Download the Open Firmware source: | ||
Latest revision as of 22:04, 18 March 2011
This page tells how to build Open Firmware as a Coreboot payload and run it under QEMU. You can also run Open Firmware under QEMU without Coreboot:
- You can build a QEMU ROM image directly from code in the OFW tree - see Building OFW for QEMU.
- You can boot OFW from a conventional BIOS - see Building OFW to Load from BIOS
Software Requirements
- qemu-0.9.1
- Open Firmware rev. >= 1051
- coreboot >= v2
- GCC and GNU make - OFW builds with most versions; I'm not sure which versions Coreboot needs
Building Open Firmware
Download the Open Firmware source:
svn co svn://openfirmware.info/openfirmware
Configure OFW for Coreboot:
cd openfirmware/cpu/x86/pc/biosload cp config-coreboot.fth config.fth
Build OFW:
cd build make
After make is finished (it shouldn't take long) there should be a file "ofwlb.elf" in the same directory. Copy this to your coreboot-v[x] directory.
Building coreboot
Follow the instructions in the coreboot documentation, using ofwlb.elf as your payload file.
Getting QEMU
Get QEMU >= 0.9.1 from http://bellard.org/qemu/download.html
Version 0.9.1 should "just work". It supports reasonably large ROM images, determining the emulated ROM size from the size of the image file. There was a "qemu_biossize.patch" for qemu-0.9.0, but the site that hosted that patch is defunct.
Run Your ROM Image
qemu -L coreboot-v3/build -hda path/to/disk.img -serial `tty` -nographic
Ideas for Improvement
These instructions build a rather plain OFW configuration that lacks drivers for several of QEMU's specific I/O devices (Ethernet, video, sound). Suitable drivers are in the OFW tree, and are included in the QEMU build described in Building OFW for QEMU. It would be nice to add those drivers to the configuration described herein. If the Cirrus video driver were added, qemu could be used in graphic mode.