On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 06:10:18AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
Today, trying to boot a RISC-V Fedora Rawhide image in a RISC-V QEMU domain results in the following error:
==== error: Failed to start domain 'riscv-fedora' error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2023-03-20T17:31:02.650862Z qemu-system-riscv64: Some ROM regions are overlapping These ROM regions might have been loaded by direct user request or by default. They could be BIOS/firmware images, a guest kernel, initrd or some other file loaded into guest memory. Check whether you intended to load all this guest code, and whether it has been built to load to the correct addresses. ====
This happens because the default RISC-V QEMU firmware, OpenSBI, is always loaded unless "-bios none" is passed in the command line, and the Fedora Rawhide guest kernel has its own ROM. Other machines such as PPC64 'pseries' shows the same behavior: the default firmware is always loaded unless specified otherwise with the '-bios' option.
What happens when these kernels are used on bare metal ? Presumably bare metal always has firmware, and the kernels successfuly overwrite it ? If so, what makes QEMU special such that it breaks ? With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|