- The qemux86 port for helloworld-baremetal builds in the standard way, however,
it uses NASM syntax for the startup code, hence we include a dependency to
nasm-native, QEMU forces us to use an ELF file rather than a bin file to boot
from this architecture using the -kernel parameter.
- QEMU refuses to boot using the -kernel parameter for files containing an ELF64
header [1], instead, it requires a multiboot2 compatible image.
We could create an image that contains a multiboot2 header by piggybacking
into grub2-native, specifically grub-mkrescue, but it requires some extra
runtime dependencies (xorriso which is currently part of meta-oe), and assumes
a grub installation exists on the host.
Due to host contamination and dependency complications, we dont rely on grub2,
but rather do this process manually instead, the x86-64 port contains a stage1
bootloader, stage2 bootloader and a 64 bit baremetal app (multiboot2
compatible), booting into real (16 bit), protected (32 bit) and long (64 bit)
modes, eventually running the helloworld-baremetal app. This is the reason why
we need the code changes to use a separate Makefile, and create an image
specifically for qemux86-64.
$ runqemu nographic
Booting from ROM..
Hello OpenEmbedded on x86!