Intro ===== The QEMU sbsa-ref machine is primarily meant for firmware development and testing according to ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards. Build ===== $ make qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig $ make Emulation ========= Run the emulation with: qemu-system-aarch64 \ -M sbsa-ref \ -cpu cortex-a57 \ -smp 4 \ -m 1024 \ -nographic \ -pflash output/images/SBSA_FLASH0.fd \ -pflash output/images/SBSA_FLASH1.fd \ -hda output/images/disk.img # qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig Note that if you want to run sbsa-ref emulation with QEMU provided by your distro (i.e., not host-qemu by Buildroot) then you may need to install the SeaBIOS package for some required drivers. On Debian: # apt install seabios