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This was observed with KERNEL_DEBUG-enabled 6.18 kernel builds, which inflate the Image size (e.g. ~27M -> ~33M on qemuriscv64), but the underlying issue is not specific to KERNEL_DEBUG or to any one kernel version, it is a property of fw_jump.elf's fixed compile-time boot address layout which does not adapt to a larger next-stage image. This was confirmed by dumping guest memory from the QEMU monitor at the kernel load address and finding the FDT magic number (0xd00dfeed, see scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt.h) sitting where kernel code should be, i.e. the DTB and Image had started to overlap [1]. fw_dynamic.elf instead receives next-stage boot information at runtime from the prior boot stage rather than assuming a fixed address, avoiding this overlap. [1] https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/246090 [YOCTO #16409] Suggested-by: Trevor Gamblin Signed-off-by: Harish Sadineni Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie (cherry picked from commit 51b72fb2e8917a8627023f419b27a1d83132a361) Signed-off-by: Harish Sadineni --- meta/conf/machine/include/riscv/qemuriscv.inc | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/riscv/qemuriscv.inc b/meta/conf/machine/include/riscv/qemuriscv.inc index bac376ce5a..d8522fd552 100644 --- a/meta/conf/machine/include/riscv/qemuriscv.inc +++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/riscv/qemuriscv.inc @@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ QB_SMP ?= "-smp 4" QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "earlycon=sbi" QB_CPU:riscv64 ?= "-cpu rva23s64,pmp=true" QB_MACHINE = "-machine virt" -QB_DEFAULT_BIOS = "fw_jump.elf" +# fw_jump.elf's memory layout can be overrun by a sufficiently large kernel Image, +# causing it to overlap the FDT load address and hang QEMU at boot (see [YOCTO #16409]), +# so use fw_dynamic.elf in that case instead, which avoids the overlap. +QB_DEFAULT_BIOS = "fw_dynamic.elf" QB_TAP_OPT = "-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=@TAP@,script=no,downscript=no" QB_NETWORK_DEVICE = "-device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0,mac=@MAC@" QB_ROOTFS_OPT = "-drive id=disk0,file=@ROOTFS@,if=none,format=raw -device virtio-blk-device,drive=disk0"