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1Arm MPS2 and MPS3 boards (``mps2-an385``, ``mps2-an386``, ``mps2-an500``, ``mps2-an505``, ``mps2-an511``, ``mps2-an521``, ``mps3-an524``, ``mps3-an536``, ``mps3-an547``)
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4These board models use Arm M-profile or R-profile CPUs.
5
6The Arm MPS2, MPS2+ and MPS3 dev boards are FPGA based (the 2+ has a
7bigger FPGA but is otherwise the same as the 2; the 3 has a bigger
8FPGA again, can handle 4GB of RAM and has a USB controller and QSPI flash).
9
10Since the CPU itself and most of the devices are in the FPGA, the
11details of the board as seen by the guest depend significantly on the
12FPGA image.
13
14QEMU models the following FPGA images:
15
16FPGA images using M-profile CPUs:
17
18``mps2-an385``
19  Cortex-M3 as documented in Arm Application Note AN385
20``mps2-an386``
21  Cortex-M4 as documented in Arm Application Note AN386
22``mps2-an500``
23  Cortex-M7 as documented in Arm Application Note AN500
24``mps2-an505``
25  Cortex-M33 as documented in Arm Application Note AN505
26``mps2-an511``
27  Cortex-M3 'DesignStart' as documented in Arm Application Note AN511
28``mps2-an521``
29  Dual Cortex-M33 as documented in Arm Application Note AN521
30``mps3-an524``
31  Dual Cortex-M33 on an MPS3, as documented in Arm Application Note AN524
32``mps3-an547``
33  Cortex-M55 on an MPS3, as documented in Arm Application Note AN547
34
35FPGA images using R-profile CPUs:
36
37``mps3-an536``
38  Dual Cortex-R52 on an MPS3, as documented in Arm Application Note AN536
39
40Differences between QEMU and real hardware:
41
42- AN385/AN386 remapping of low 16K of memory to either ZBT SSRAM1 or to
43  block RAM is unimplemented (QEMU always maps this to ZBT SSRAM1, as
44  if zbt_boot_ctrl is always zero)
45- AN524 remapping of low memory to either BRAM or to QSPI flash is
46  unimplemented (QEMU always maps this to BRAM, ignoring the
47  SCC CFG_REG0 memory-remap bit)
48- QEMU provides a LAN9118 ethernet rather than LAN9220; the only guest
49  visible difference is that the LAN9118 doesn't support checksum
50  offloading
51- QEMU does not model the QSPI flash in MPS3 boards as real QSPI
52  flash, but only as simple ROM, so attempting to rewrite the flash
53  from the guest will fail
54- QEMU does not model the USB controller in MPS3 boards
55- AN536 does not support runtime control of CPU reset and halt via
56  the SCC CFG_REG0 register.
57- AN536 does not support enabling or disabling the flash and ATCM
58  interfaces via the SCC CFG_REG1 register.
59- AN536 does not support setting of the initial vector table
60  base address via the SCC CFG_REG6 and CFG_REG7 register config,
61  and does not provide a mechanism for specifying these values at
62  startup, so all guest images must be built to start from TCM
63  (i.e. to expect the interrupt vector base at 0 from reset).
64- AN536 defaults to only creating a single CPU; this is the equivalent
65  of the way the real FPGA image usually runs with the second Cortex-R52
66  held in halt via the initial SCC CFG_REG0 register setting. You can
67  create the second CPU with ``-smp 2``; both CPUs will then start
68  execution immediately on startup.
69
70Note that for the AN536 the first UART is accessible only by
71CPU0, and the second UART is accessible only by CPU1. The
72first UART accessible shared between both CPUs is the third
73UART. Guest software might therefore be built to use either
74the first UART or the third UART; if you don't see any output
75from the UART you are looking at, try one of the others.
76(Even if the AN536 machine is started with a single CPU and so
77no "CPU1-only UART", the UART numbering remains the same,
78with the third UART being the first of the shared ones.)
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80Machine-specific options
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83The following machine-specific options are supported:
84
85remap
86  Supported for ``mps3-an524`` only.
87  Set ``BRAM``/``QSPI`` to select the initial memory mapping. The
88  default is ``BRAM``.
89