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<section id="arm-versatile-boards-versatileab-versatilepb">
<h1>Arm Versatile boards (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">versatileab</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">versatilepb</span></code>)<a class="headerlink" href="#arm-versatile-boards-versatileab-versatilepb" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>The Arm Versatile baseboard is emulated with the following devices:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>ARM926E, ARM1136 or Cortex-A8 CPU</p></li>
<li><p>PL190 Vectored Interrupt Controller</p></li>
<li><p>Four PL011 UARTs</p></li>
<li><p>SMC 91c111 Ethernet adapter</p></li>
<li><p>PL110 LCD controller</p></li>
<li><p>PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse.</p></li>
<li><p>PCI host bridge. Note the emulated PCI bridge only provides access
to PCI memory space. It does not provide access to PCI IO space. This
means some devices (eg. ne2k_pci NIC) are not usable, and others (eg.
rtl8139 NIC) are only usable when the guest drivers use the memory
mapped control registers.</p></li>
<li><p>PCI OHCI USB controller.</p></li>
<li><p>LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM
devices.</p></li>
<li><p>PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.</p></li>
</ul>
<section id="booting-a-linux-kernel">
<h2>Booting a Linux kernel<a class="headerlink" href="#booting-a-linux-kernel" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Building a current Linux kernel with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">versatile_defconfig</span></code> should be
enough to get something running. Nowadays an out-of-tree build is
recommended (and also useful if you build a lot of different targets).
In the following example $BLD points to the build directory and $SRC
points to the root of the Linux source tree. You can drop $SRC if you
are running from there.</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>make<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">O</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$BLD</span><span class="w"> </span>-C<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$SRC</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">ARCH</span><span class="o">=</span>arm<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">CROSS_COMPILE</span><span class="o">=</span>arm-linux-gnueabihf-<span class="w"> </span>versatile_defconfig
$<span class="w"> </span>make<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">O</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$BLD</span><span class="w"> </span>-C<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$SRC</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">ARCH</span><span class="o">=</span>arm<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">CROSS_COMPILE</span><span class="o">=</span>arm-linux-gnueabihf-
</pre></div>
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<p>You may want to enable some additional modules if you want to boot
something from the SCSI interface:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">CONFIG_PCI</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">y</span>
<span class="n">CONFIG_PCI_VERSATILE</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">y</span>
<span class="n">CONFIG_SCSI</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">y</span>
<span class="n">CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">y</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>You can then boot with a command line like:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>qemu-system-arm<span class="w"> </span>-machine<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">type</span><span class="o">=</span>versatilepb<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-serial<span class="w"> </span>mon:stdio<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-drive<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="o">=</span>scsi,driver<span class="o">=</span>file,filename<span class="o">=</span>debian-buster-armel-rootfs.ext4<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-kernel<span class="w"> </span>zImage<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-dtb<span class="w"> </span>versatile-pb.dtb<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>-append<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;console=ttyAMA0 ro root=/dev/sda&quot;</span>
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