From patchwork Thu Nov 13 15:18:01 2025 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jon Mason X-Patchwork-Id: 74451 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0105CD8C8F for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.msgproc01-g2.26451.1763047084725216796 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:18:05 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=none (message not signed); spf=pass (domain: arm.com, ip: 217.140.110.172, mailfrom: jon.mason@arm.com) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF7B12FC for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:17:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from H24V3P4C17.arm.com (usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D17423F66E for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:18:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Mason To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] runqemu: avoid setting "mem=" when using a DTB Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:18:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20251113151802.366-1-jon.mason@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:18:09 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/226250 Some emulated machines, such as the Raspberry Pi models, fail to boot if a fixed "mem=" value is passed on the kernel command line. When a DTB is used (QB_DTB is set), the memory size is already defined there, so specifying it again is unnecessary and can cause issues. Skip adding "mem=" to the kernel command line when QB_DTB is present. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason --- scripts/runqemu | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu index 2be7a0f2869f..370b45578137 100755 --- a/scripts/runqemu +++ b/scripts/runqemu @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ to your build configuration. self.set('QB_MEM', qb_mem) mach = self.get('MACHINE') - if not mach.startswith(('qemumips', 'qemux86', 'qemuloongarch64')): + if not mach.startswith(('qemumips', 'qemux86', 'qemuloongarch64')) and self.get('QB_DTB') == "": self.kernel_cmdline_script += ' mem=%s' % self.get('QB_MEM').replace('-m','').strip() + 'M' self.qemu_opt_script += ' %s' % self.get('QB_MEM')