Re: Testing on riscv64

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:09:40PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> > Platform: riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > gnulib @ db0b059ae4f489d0c83b785b259eb965a181d0d0 (yesterday)
> 
> Prompted by your mail, I'm trying to run a Linux/riscv64 machine in a qemu
> VM, in order to look at the gnulib problems and port GNU libffcall and other
> software. According to [1], I'm using qemu built from upstream qemu today with
> options
>  
> --target-list=riscv32-softmmu,riscv64-softmmu,riscv32-linux-user,riscv64-linux-user
> According to [2], I'm taking your disk image and running it as
>
>   qemu-system-riscv64 \
>     -nographic -machine virt -m 2G -smp 4 \
>     -kernel bbl \
>     -append "console=ttyS0 ro root=/dev/vda init=/init" \
>     -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
>     -drive file=stage4-disk.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \
>     -device virtio-net-device,netdev=usernet \
>     -netdev user,id=usernet

This command line is slightly different from the one we're using.
See the readme.txt file here for details which are known to work:

  https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/disk-images/

However the main problem is it cannot find systemd on the root
filesystem:

> and it fails like this:
> 
> EXT4-fs (vda): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
> EXT4-fs (vda): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
> EXT4-fs (vda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
> VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 254:0.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 200K
> This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init /init failed (error -2).

Are you using our bbl (bootloader + kernel)?  Are you using our
latest stage4-disk.img, uncompressed?

  2a4a27c97e31c9fc78b3b8108067ef58  stage4-disk.img
  a0aa455d5b84fd7c41e97043279bc3df  bbl

I've not actually tried upstream qemu yet, we're still using:

  https://github.com/riscv/riscv-qemu/tree/qemu-upstream-v8

Also we have one extra patch which is not included in any tree yet:

  
https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-bootstrap/blob/master/stage1-riscv-qemu/force-float-save.patch

But as far as I know upstream qemu should work fine.
I'll try it now ...

> The message "This architecture does not have kernel memory protection." seems
> to indicate some differences between the qemu you are using and the official
> upstream one. Can you help, please?

Apparently this message can be ignored.

Rich.

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