[PATCH v5 0/3] m68k: Add Virtual M68k Machine

From: Laurent Vivier
Date: Thu Jan 13 2022 - 05:36:15 EST


The most powerful m68k machine emulated by QEMU is a Quadra 800,
but this machine is very limited: only 1 GiB of memory and only some
specific interfaces, with no DMA.

The Virtual M68k Machine is based on Goldfish interfaces defined by Google
for Android simulator. It uses Goldfish-rtc (timer and RTC),
Goldfish-pic (PIC) and Goldfish-tty (for early tty).

The machine is created with 128 virtio-mmio buses, and they can
be used to add serial console, GPU, disk, NIC, HID, hwrng, 9PFS...

The virtual m68k machine has been merged in QEMU and will be available
with the release 6.0.

This series introduces the support of this new machine in the linux kernel.

If you want to try:

- Configure and build latest QEMU with (or download qemu 6.0 binary):

.../configure --target-list=m68k-softmmu --enable-virglrenderer
make

- Configure and build linux with:

make virt_defconfig
make vmlinux

A pre-installed qcow2 disk image is available at:

http://vivier.eu/debian-10.0.qcow2

You can run the machine with something like:

qemu-system-m68k -M virt \
-m 3G \
-chardev stdio,signal=off,mux=on,id=char0 \
-mon chardev=char0,mode=readline \
-kernel vmlinux \
-append "console=hvc0 root=/dev/vda2" \
-blockdev node-name=system,driver=file,filename=debian-10.0.qcow2 \
-blockdev node-name=drive0,driver=qcow2,file=system \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=drive0 \
-serial chardev:char0 \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=hostnet0 \
-netdev bridge,id=hostnet0,br=virbr0,helper=/usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper \
-device virtio-serial-device \
-device virtio-gpu-device \
-device virtconsole,chardev=char0 \
-device virtio-keyboard-device \
-device virtio-mouse-device

You can watch a presentation about the machine on the Planet m68k channel:

https://youtu.be/s_ve0bCC9q4
[Demo at 38:00]

v5:
- add GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS in Kconfig.machine

v4:
- update PATCH 1: comments and parameter names
- add a patch to move to generic clockevents
(I prefer to have a separate patch as it can be used as an example to
move from legacy timer tick to generic clockevents)

v3:
- introduce config.h to export prototypes to arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c
- define virt_nmi_handler as static

v2:
- Remove VIRTO_MENU set y
- sort the selects
- add CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-virt"
- generate virt_defconfig using "make savedefconfig"
- rename MACH_VIRTONLY to MACH_VIRT_ONLY
- add a test_notvirt label in head.S
- rework iounmap() to use two separate #ifdefs
- use %u in virt_get_model()
- drop show_registers() in config.c
- drop pr_err() from config_virt()
- sort includes in ints.c
- call virt_irq_enable() in virt_irq_startup()
- drop virt_irq_shutdown() and use virt_irq_disable()
- move in_nmi into virt_nmi_handler()
- use pr_warn() in virt_nmi_handler()
- rework goldfish_pic_irq() IRQ scan
- copy goldfish-pic IRQs related information from QEMU hw/m68k/virt
- add a comment to "min_low_pfn = 0"
- use platform_device_register_simple()
- use goldfish_timer_read(), upper_32_bits() and lower_32_bits()

Thanks,
Laurent

Laurent Vivier (3):
m68k: add asm/config.h
m68k: introduce a virtual m68k machine
m68k: virt: Remove LEGACY_TIMER_TICK

arch/m68k/Kbuild | 1 +
arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine | 16 +++
arch/m68k/amiga/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/apollo/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/atari/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/bvme6000/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/configs/virt_defconfig | 65 +++++++++++
arch/m68k/hp300/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/include/asm/config.h | 35 ++++++
arch/m68k/include/asm/irq.h | 3 +-
arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h | 7 ++
arch/m68k/include/asm/setup.h | 44 ++++++--
arch/m68k/include/asm/virt.h | 26 +++++
arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/bootinfo-virt.h | 18 ++++
arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/bootinfo.h | 1 +
arch/m68k/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
arch/m68k/kernel/head.S | 31 ++++++
arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c | 30 ++----
arch/m68k/mac/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/mm/kmap.c | 23 ++--
arch/m68k/mvme147/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/mvme16x/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/q40/config.c | 1 +
arch/m68k/virt/Makefile | 6 ++
arch/m68k/virt/config.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/m68k/virt/ints.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++
arch/m68k/virt/platform.c | 72 +++++++++++++
arch/m68k/virt/timer.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++
28 files changed, 700 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/configs/virt_defconfig
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/include/asm/config.h
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/include/asm/virt.h
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/bootinfo-virt.h
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/virt/Makefile
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/virt/config.c
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/virt/ints.c
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/virt/platform.c
create mode 100644 arch/m68k/virt/timer.c

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