Building EDK2 Qemu From Scratch On Raspberry Pi
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  2021-07-29 23:23:01 2021-07-29 23:23    

Prerequisites

Building EDK2

  • Install required packages

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    sudo apt install build-essential git uuid-dev iasl nasm python

  • Get the latest source for EDKII

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    mkdir code; cd code
    git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
    cd edk2; git submodule update --init

  • Config and building

    • Compile base tools
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      make -C BaseTools
    • Set up build environment
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      . ./edksetup.sh

  • Set up build target

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    vi Conf/target.txt
    • set ACTIVE_PLATFORM = ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirtQemu.dsc
    • set TARGET = DEBUG
    • set TARGET_ARCH = AARCH64
    • set TOOL_CHAIN_TAG = GCC5

  • Building MdeModulePkg module package

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    build

    Note: build, which is exported by edksetup.sh, is not a system command

  • Get the UEFI bin

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    ls Build/ArmVirtQemu-AARCH64/DEBUG_GCC5/FV/QEMU_EFI.fd

Building Qemu

  • Get the latest source for Qemu

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    cd ..
    wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-6.0.0.tar.xz
    tar -xvf qemu-6.0.0.tar.xz

  • Install required packages

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    sudo apt install build-essential
    sudo apt install libaio1 libaio-dev

  • Config and building

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    cd qemu-6.0.0
    ./configure --enable-trace-backend=simple --enable-debug --target-list=aarch64-softmmu --prefix=/usr/local --without-default-features --enable-kvm --enable-linux-aio --enable-vhost-net --enable-vhost-vsock --enable-vhost-scsi --enable-vhost-kernel --enable-vnc --enable-tools
    make -j 3

    Note: type ./configure –help to set your own configurations

  • Get the Qemu bin

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    ./build/qemu-system-aarch64 --version
    ./build/qemu-img --version

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