Kernel-4.18.0-80.el8_fw-cfg

  • QEMU Firmware Configuration bindings for ARM

QEMU’s arm-softmmu and aarch64-softmmu emulation / virtualization targets
provide the following Firmware Configuration interface on the “virt” machine
type:

  • A write-only, 16-bit wide selector (or control) register,
  • a read-write, 64-bit wide data register.

QEMU exposes the control and data register to ARM guests as memory mapped
registers; their location is communicated to the guest’s UEFI firmware in the
DTB that QEMU places at the bottom of the guest’s DRAM.

The authoritative guest-side hardware interface documentation to the fw_cfg
device can be found in “docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt” in the QEMU source tree.

Required properties:

  • compatible: “qemu,fw-cfg-mmio”.

  • reg: the MMIO region used by the device.

    • Bytes 0x0 to 0x7 cover the data register.
    • Bytes 0x8 to 0x9 cover the selector register.
    • Further registers may be appended to the region in case of future interface
      revisions / feature bits.

Example:

/ {
#size-cells = <0x2>;
#address-cells = <0x2>;

fw-cfg@9020000 {
    compatible = "qemu,fw-cfg-mmio";
    reg = <0x0 0x9020000 0x0 0xa>;
};

};