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[93.89.130.18]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-4756636cf98sm12680161f8f.22.2026.07.01.04.58.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:58:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Kiernan Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:58:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] qemuarmv8a32: add QEMU machine for AArch32 ARMv8-A MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20260701-tune-a32-v1-3-a43f28b1d7a4@gmail.com> References: <20260701-tune-a32-v1-0-a43f28b1d7a4@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260701-tune-a32-v1-0-a43f28b1d7a4@gmail.com> To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Cc: Alex Kiernan , Alex Kiernan X-Mailer: b4 0.15.2 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 ; Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:58:40 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/239980 Add a QEMU machine for exercising an AArch32-only ARMv8-A target (Cortex-A32) under emulation, defaulting to the cortexa32-crypto tune. QEMU has no Cortex-A32 model, so it runs on the 'virt' machine with qemu-system-arm and -cpu max, which provides the ARMv8-A AArch32 feature set including the crypto extensions needed by the crypto tune. The kernel is built as a zImage and u-boot uses qemu_arm_defconfig, matching the other 32-bit ARM QEMU machines. Map KMACHINE to qemuarma15 so the existing linux-yocto BSP is reused, and add qemuarmv8a32 to linux-yocto's COMPATIBLE_MACHINE so a kernel can be built for it. AI-Generated: Claude Code (Claude Opus 4.8) Signed-off-by: Alex Kiernan Signed-off-by: Alex Kiernan --- meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv8a32.conf | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.18.bb | 2 +- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv8a32.conf b/meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv8a32.conf new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8e49a56ae720 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv8a32.conf @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +#@TYPE: Machine +#@NAME: QEMU ARMv8 AArch32 machine on Cortex-A32 +#@DESCRIPTION: Machine configuration for running an AArch32 system on QEMU + +DEFAULTTUNE = "cortexa32-crypto" + +require conf/machine/include/arm/armv8a/tune-cortexa32.inc +require conf/machine/include/qemu.inc + +KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "zImage" + +PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader ?= "u-boot" +UBOOT_MACHINE ?= "qemu_arm_defconfig" + +SERIAL_CONSOLES ?= "115200;ttyAMA0 115200;hvc0" + +# For runqemu +QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-arm" +QB_MACHINE = "-machine virt" +# QEMU doesn't know about Cortex-A32 +QB_CPU = "-cpu max" +QB_SMP ?= "-smp 4" +QB_CPU_KVM = "-cpu host -machine gic-version=3" +# For graphics to work we need to define the VGA device as well as the necessary USB devices +QB_GRAPHICS = "-device virtio-gpu-pci" +QB_OPT_APPEND = "-device qemu-xhci -device usb-tablet -device usb-kbd" +# Virtio Networking support +QB_TAP_OPT = "-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=@TAP@,script=no,downscript=no" +QB_NETWORK_DEVICE = "-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=@MAC@" +# Virtio block device +QB_ROOTFS_OPT = "-drive id=disk0,file=@ROOTFS@,if=none,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=disk0" +# Virtio serial console +QB_SERIAL_OPT = "-device virtio-serial-pci -chardev null,id=virtcon -device virtconsole,chardev=virtcon" +QB_TCPSERIAL_OPT = "-device virtio-serial-pci -chardev socket,id=virtcon,port=@PORT@,host=127.0.0.1,nodelay=on -device virtconsole,chardev=virtcon" + +KMACHINE:qemuarmv8a32 = "qemuarma15" diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.18.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.18.bb index 2b1298dedf9c..a818506bb6f3 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.18.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.18.bb @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ KCONF_BSP_AUDIT_LEVEL = "1" KERNEL_DEVICETREE:qemuarmv5 = "arm/versatile-pb.dtb" -COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "^(qemuarm|qemuarmv5|qemuarm64|qemux86|qemuppc|qemuppc64|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64|qemuriscv64|qemuriscv32|qemuloongarch64)$" +COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "^(qemuarm|qemuarmv5|qemuarmv8a32|qemuarm64|qemux86|qemuppc|qemuppc64|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64|qemuriscv64|qemuriscv32|qemuloongarch64)$" # Functionality flags KERNEL_EXTRA_FEATURES ?= "features/netfilter/netfilter.scc"