Describe how to build U-Boot to be run by QEMU as an emulated flash image.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
qemu-system-riscv64 -accel kvm -nographic -machine virt -kernel u-boot
+Running as flash binary
+-----------------------
+
+U-Boot can be provided to QEMU as an emulated flash drive.
+This can for instance be used to test capsule updates.
+
+Build qemu-riscv64_smode_defconfig with::
+
+ CONFIG_XIP=y
+ CONFIG_TEXT_BASE=0x20000000
+ CONFIG_CMD_MTD=y
+ CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD=y
+
+Pad u-boot.bin to 32 MiB size:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ truncate -s 32M u-boot.bin
+
+Invoke QEMU with:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -nographic \
+ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,file=u-boot.bin,readonly=off
+
Debug UART
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