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docs/system: riscv: Add pflash usage details
pflash devices can be used in virt machine for different
purposes like for ROM code or S-mode FW payload. Add a
section in the documentation on how to use pflash devices
for different purposes.

Signed-off-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Message-Id: <20230601045910.18646-4-sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
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Expand Up @@ -53,6 +53,37 @@ with the default OpenSBI firmware image as the -bios. It also supports
the recommended RISC-V bootflow: U-Boot SPL (M-mode) loads OpenSBI fw_dynamic
firmware and U-Boot proper (S-mode), using the standard -bios functionality.

Using flash devices
-------------------

By default, the first flash device (pflash0) is expected to contain
S-mode firmware code. It can be configured as read-only, with the
second flash device (pflash1) available to store configuration data.

For example, booting edk2 looks like

.. code-block:: bash
$ qemu-system-riscv64 \
-blockdev node-name=pflash0,driver=file,read-only=on,filename=<edk2_code> \
-blockdev node-name=pflash1,driver=file,filename=<edk2_vars> \
-M virt,pflash0=pflash0,pflash1=pflash1 \
... other args ....
For TCG guests only, it is also possible to boot M-mode firmware from
the first flash device (pflash0) by additionally passing ``-bios
none``, as in

.. code-block:: bash
$ qemu-system-riscv64 \
-bios none \
-blockdev node-name=pflash0,driver=file,read-only=on,filename=<m_mode_code> \
-M virt,pflash0=pflash0 \
... other args ....
Firmware images used for pflash must be exactly 32 MiB in size.

Machine-specific options
------------------------

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