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hw/arm: add static NVDIMMs in device tree
authorManos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:21:30 +0000 (11:21 +0100)
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:37:23 +0000 (16:37 +0100)
commit36bc78aca83cfd3c8f73cbcb428bc7f0ce7a4a61
tree24afa43bec8434c60d52cabf8314439546ae3d9c
parent7494f8bbfbb030c5c40a42e4d71430115e4f7a63
hw/arm: add static NVDIMMs in device tree

NVDIMM is used for fast rootfs with EROFS, for example by kata
containers. To allow booting with static NVDIMM memory, add them to the
device tree in arm virt machine.

This allows users to boot directly with nvdimm memory devices without
having to rely on ACPI and hotplug.

Verified to work with command invocation:

./qemu-system-aarch64 \
  -M virt,nvdimm=on \
  -cpu cortex-a57 \
  -m 4G,slots=2,maxmem=8G \
  -object memory-backend-file,id=mem1,share=on,mem-path=/tmp/nvdimm,size=4G,readonly=off \
  -device nvdimm,id=nvdimm1,memdev=mem1,unarmed=off \
  -drive file=./debian-12-nocloud-arm64-commited.qcow2,format=qcow2 \
  -kernel ./vmlinuz-6.1.0-13-arm64 \
  -append "root=/dev/vda1 console=ttyAMA0,115200 acpi=off"
  -initrd ./initrd.img-6.1.0-13-arm64 \
  -nographic \
  -serial mon:stdio

Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20250807-nvdimm_arm64_virt-v2-1-b8054578bea8@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
hw/arm/boot.c
hw/arm/virt.c