[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] configs/qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig: use ARM cortex a57

D. Olsson hi at senzilla.io
Sun Nov 7 21:25:27 UTC 2021


Hi Romain,

Resending my review because I didn't reply to all :)

> On 7 Nov 2021, at 20:29, Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When booting with cortex-a53, qemu refuse to start with the following message [1]:
> 
>  qemu-system-aarch64: sbsa-ref: CPU type other than the built-in cortex-a57 not supported

Thanks for catching this! Looks like removal of a53 support is a fairly recent change in QEMU: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/4f335a6381f83beb5d6ac0d3993514379454a99d#diff-8efb73c3e0dd9d7a13b0597a056b4cd8fa9d9250c7de8b1d3b538d07d98a8c50

> Use ARM cortex a57 as requested by Qemu.
> 
> [1] https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=64580903c2b3aee08d74d64e6248a313b246cb69
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> Cc: Dick Olsson <hi at senzilla.io>
> ---
> board/qemu/aarch64-sbsa/readme.txt  | 2 +-
> configs/qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/board/qemu/aarch64-sbsa/readme.txt b/board/qemu/aarch64-sbsa/readme.txt
> index 7935108ef1..b62947f55f 100644
> --- a/board/qemu/aarch64-sbsa/readme.txt
> +++ b/board/qemu/aarch64-sbsa/readme.txt
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Run the emulation with:
> 
>   qemu-system-aarch64 \
>     -M sbsa-ref \
> -    -cpu cortex-a53 \
> +    -cpu cortex-a57 \
>     -smp 4 \
>     -m 1024 \
>     -nographic \
> diff --git a/configs/qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig b/configs/qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig
> index 0e1c799b4d..d1e0adadd1 100644
> --- a/configs/qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> # Architecture
> BR2_aarch64=y
> -BR2_cortex_a53=y
> +BR2_cortex_a57=y
> 
> # Toolchain
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_WCHAR=y
> -- 
> 2.31.1

Looks good!

Reviewed-by: Dick Olsson <hi at senzilla.io>

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