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The Xunlong Orange Pi PC machine is a functional ARM machine based on the Allwinner H3 System-on-Chip. It supports mainline Linux, U-Boot, NetBSD and is covered by acceptance tests. This commit adds a documentation text file with a description of the machine and instructions for the user. Signed-off-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-id: 20200311221854.30370-19-nieklinnenbank@gmail.com [PMM: moved file into docs/system/arm to match the reorg of the arm target part of the docs; tweaked heading to match other boards] Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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| F: hw/*/allwinner-h3* | ||||
| F: include/hw/*/allwinner-h3* | ||||
| F: hw/arm/orangepi.c | ||||
| F: docs/system/orangepi.rst | ||||
| 
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| ARM PrimeCell and CMSDK devices | ||||
| M: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | ||||
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| Orange Pi PC (``orangepi-pc``) | ||||
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The Xunlong Orange Pi PC is an Allwinner H3 System on Chip | ||||
| based embedded computer with mainline support in both U-Boot | ||||
| and Linux. The board comes with a Quad Core Cortex-A7 @ 1.3GHz, | ||||
| 1GiB RAM, 100Mbit ethernet, USB, SD/MMC, USB, HDMI and | ||||
| various other I/O. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Supported devices | ||||
| """"""""""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The Orange Pi PC machine supports the following devices: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|  * SMP (Quad Core Cortex-A7) | ||||
|  * Generic Interrupt Controller configuration | ||||
|  * SRAM mappings | ||||
|  * SDRAM controller | ||||
|  * Real Time Clock | ||||
|  * Timer device (re-used from Allwinner A10) | ||||
|  * UART | ||||
|  * SD/MMC storage controller | ||||
|  * EMAC ethernet | ||||
|  * USB 2.0 interfaces | ||||
|  * Clock Control Unit | ||||
|  * System Control module | ||||
|  * Security Identifier device | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Limitations | ||||
| """"""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Currently, Orange Pi PC does *not* support the following features: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| - Graphical output via HDMI, GPU and/or the Display Engine | ||||
| - Audio output | ||||
| - Hardware Watchdog | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Also see the 'unimplemented' array in the Allwinner H3 SoC module | ||||
| for a complete list of unimplemented I/O devices: ``./hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c`` | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Boot options | ||||
| """""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The Orange Pi PC machine can start using the standard -kernel functionality | ||||
| for loading a Linux kernel or ELF executable. Additionally, the Orange Pi PC | ||||
| machine can also emulate the BootROM which is present on an actual Allwinner H3 | ||||
| based SoC, which loads the bootloader from a SD card, specified via the -sd argument | ||||
| to qemu-system-arm. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Machine-specific options | ||||
| """""""""""""""""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The following machine-specific options are supported: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| - allwinner-rtc.base-year=YYYY | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   The Allwinner RTC device is automatically created by the Orange Pi PC machine | ||||
|   and uses a default base year value which can be overridden using the 'base-year' property. | ||||
|   The base year is the actual represented year when the RTC year value is zero. | ||||
|   This option can be used in case the target operating system driver uses a different | ||||
|   base year value. The minimum value for the base year is 1900. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| - allwinner-sid.identifier=abcd1122-a000-b000-c000-12345678ffff | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   The Security Identifier value can be read by the guest. | ||||
|   For example, U-Boot uses it to determine a unique MAC address. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The above machine-specific options can be specified in qemu-system-arm | ||||
| via the '-global' argument, for example: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ qemu-system-arm -M orangepi-pc -sd mycard.img \ | ||||
|        -global allwinner-rtc.base-year=2000 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Running mainline Linux | ||||
| """""""""""""""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Mainline Linux kernels from 4.19 up to latest master are known to work. | ||||
| To build a Linux mainline kernel that can be booted by the Orange Pi PC machine, | ||||
| simply configure the kernel using the sunxi_defconfig configuration: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- make mrproper | ||||
|   $ ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- make sunxi_defconfig | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To be able to use USB storage, you need to manually enable the corresponding | ||||
| configuration item. Start the kconfig configuration tool: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- make menuconfig | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Navigate to the following item, enable it and save your configuration: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   Device Drivers > USB support > USB Mass Storage support | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Build the Linux kernel with: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- make | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To boot the newly build linux kernel in QEMU with the Orange Pi PC machine, use: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ qemu-system-arm -M orangepi-pc -nic user -nographic \ | ||||
|       -kernel /path/to/linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage \ | ||||
|       -append 'console=ttyS0,115200' \ | ||||
|       -dtb /path/to/linux/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Orange Pi PC images | ||||
| """"""""""""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Note that the mainline kernel does not have a root filesystem. You may provide it | ||||
| with an official Orange Pi PC image from the official website: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/ | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Another possibility is to run an Armbian image for Orange Pi PC which | ||||
| can be downloaded from: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|    https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pc/ | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Alternatively, you can also choose to build you own image with buildroot | ||||
| using the orangepi_pc_defconfig. Also see https://buildroot.org for more information. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| You can choose to attach the selected image either as an SD card or as USB mass storage. | ||||
| For example, to boot using the Orange Pi PC Debian image on SD card, simply add the -sd | ||||
| argument and provide the proper root= kernel parameter: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ qemu-system-arm -M orangepi-pc -nic user -nographic \ | ||||
|       -kernel /path/to/linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage \ | ||||
|       -append 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2' \ | ||||
|       -dtb /path/to/linux/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb \ | ||||
|       -sd OrangePi_pc_debian_stretch_server_linux5.3.5_v1.0.img | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To attach the image as an USB mass storage device to the machine, | ||||
| simply append to the command: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   -drive if=none,id=stick,file=myimage.img \ | ||||
|   -device usb-storage,bus=usb-bus.0,drive=stick | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Instead of providing a custom Linux kernel via the -kernel command you may also | ||||
| choose to let the Orange Pi PC machine load the bootloader from SD card, just like | ||||
| a real board would do using the BootROM. Simply pass the selected image via the -sd | ||||
| argument and remove the -kernel, -append, -dbt and -initrd arguments: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ qemu-system-arm -M orangepi-pc -nic user -nographic \ | ||||
|        -sd Armbian_19.11.3_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.3.9.img | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Note that both the official Orange Pi PC images and Armbian images start | ||||
| a lot of userland programs via systemd. Depending on the host hardware and OS, | ||||
| they may be slow to emulate, especially due to emulating the 4 cores. | ||||
| To help reduce the performance slow down due to emulating the 4 cores, you can | ||||
| give the following kernel parameters via U-Boot (or via -append): | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   => setenv extraargs 'systemd.default_timeout_start_sec=9000 loglevel=7 nosmp console=ttyS0,115200' | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Running U-Boot | ||||
| """""""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| U-Boot mainline can be build and configured using the orangepi_pc_defconfig | ||||
| using similar commands as describe above for Linux. Note that it is recommended | ||||
| for development/testing to select the following configuration setting in U-Boot: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   Device Tree Control > Provider for DTB for DT Control > Embedded DTB | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To start U-Boot using the Orange Pi PC machine, provide the | ||||
| u-boot binary to the -kernel argument: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ qemu-system-arm -M orangepi-pc -nic user -nographic \ | ||||
|       -kernel /path/to/uboot/u-boot -sd disk.img | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Use the following U-boot commands to load and boot a Linux kernel from SD card: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   => setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 | ||||
|   => ext2load mmc 0 0x42000000 zImage | ||||
|   => ext2load mmc 0 0x43000000 sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb | ||||
|   => bootz 0x42000000 - 0x43000000 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Running NetBSD | ||||
| """""""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The NetBSD operating system also includes support for Allwinner H3 based boards, | ||||
| including the Orange Pi PC. NetBSD 9.0 is known to work best for the Orange Pi PC | ||||
| board and provides a fully working system with serial console, networking and storage. | ||||
| For the Orange Pi PC machine, get the 'evbarm-earmv7hf' based image from: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0/evbarm-earmv7hf/binary/gzimg/armv7.img.gz | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The image requires manually installing U-Boot in the image. Build U-Boot with | ||||
| the orangepi_pc_defconfig configuration as described in the previous section. | ||||
| Next, unzip the NetBSD image and write the U-Boot binary including SPL using: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ gunzip armv7.img.gz | ||||
|   $ dd if=/path/to/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=armv7.img bs=1024 seek=8 conv=notrunc | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Finally, before starting the machine the SD image must be extended such | ||||
| that the NetBSD kernel will not conclude the NetBSD partition is larger than | ||||
| the emulated SD card: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=64 >> armv7.img | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Start the machine using the following command: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ qemu-system-arm -M orangepi-pc -nic user -nographic \ | ||||
|         -sd armv7.img -global allwinner-rtc.base-year=2000 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| At the U-Boot stage, interrupt the automatic boot process by pressing a key | ||||
| and set the following environment variables before booting: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   => setenv bootargs root=ld0a | ||||
|   => setenv kernel netbsd-GENERIC.ub | ||||
|   => setenv fdtfile dtb/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb | ||||
|   => setenv bootcmd 'fatload mmc 0:1 ${kernel_addr_r} ${kernel}; fatload mmc 0:1 ${fdt_addr_r} ${fdtfile}; fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}; bootm ${kernel_addr_r} - ${fdt_addr_r}' | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Optionally you may save the environment variables to SD card with 'saveenv'. | ||||
| To continue booting simply give the 'boot' command and NetBSD boots. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Orange Pi PC acceptance tests | ||||
| """"""""""""""""""""""""""""" | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The Orange Pi PC machine has several acceptance tests included. | ||||
| To run the whole set of tests, build QEMU from source and simply | ||||
| provide the following command: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. code-block:: bash | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ AVOCADO_ALLOW_LARGE_STORAGE=yes avocado --show=app,console run \ | ||||
|      -t machine:orangepi-pc tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | ||||
| @ -68,6 +68,7 @@ undocumented; you can get a complete list by running | ||||
| ``qemu-system-aarch64 --machine help``. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| .. toctree:: | ||||
|    :maxdepth: 1 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|    arm/integratorcp | ||||
|    arm/versatile | ||||
| @ -78,6 +79,7 @@ undocumented; you can get a complete list by running | ||||
|    arm/stellaris | ||||
|    arm/musicpal | ||||
|    arm/sx1 | ||||
|    arm/orangepi | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Arm CPU features | ||||
| ================ | ||||
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