Re: Qemu support for mcimx6ul-evk machine

[Alex Bennée]

Pratik Parvati <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Support team,
>
> Lately, I am trying to get Linux up on qemu-arm *mcimx6ul-evk* machine
> using buildroot. I have generated all the images required for my target
> machine. Following are the steps I followed for building images on
> buildroot (*version: buildroot-2016.11.1*).
>
> $ make freescale_imx6ulevk_defconfig
> $ make nconfig
>
> I have selected the packages required for my qemu build and then built the
> images using command
>
> $ make
>
> in "*output/images"* I see the following images generated,
> *boot.vfat,  imx6ul-14x14-evk.dtb,  rootfs.ext2,  rootfs.ext4,
> rootfs.tar,  sdcard.img,  u-boot.bin,  u-boot.imx,  zImage*.
>
> I am referring this <https://dzone.com/articles/an-arm-image-with-buildroot>
> article to replicate the same for mcimx6ul-evk. I ran the below command to
> boot Linux on my target machine
>
> $ qemu-system-arm -M mcimx6ul-evk -m 512M -kernel output/images/zImage
> -monitor stdio -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,format=raw

Currently you have the monitor set to stdio so you won't see any output
from the serial port. You can configure serial output to multiplex with
the monitor with the command line option:

  -serial mon:stdio

and toggle between the two with C-a c

>
> I don't see Linux booting on the serial0 console without any logs. can
> someone please help me how to resolve this? Or am I missing something here?
>
> Note: The qemu(*version: qemu-4.1.0*) is built for arm target using below
> commands.
>
> $ ./configure --target-list=arm-softmmu --enable-sdl
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Pratik


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Alex Bennée