Xilinx Zynq board (xilinx-zynq-a9)

The Zynq 7000 family is based on the AMD SoC architecture. These products integrate a feature-rich dual or single-core Arm Cortex-A9 MPCore based processing system (PS) and AMD programmable logic (PL) in a single device.

More details here: https://docs.amd.com/r/en-US/ug585-zynq-7000-SoC-TRM/Zynq-7000-SoC-Technical-Reference-Manual

QEMU xilinx-zynq-a9 board supports following devices:
  • A9 MPCORE

    • cortex-a9

    • GIC v1

    • Generic timer

    • wdt

  • OCM 256KB

  • SMC SRAM@0xe2000000 64MB

  • Zynq SLCR

  • SPI x2

  • QSPI

  • UART

  • TTC x2

  • Gigabit Ethernet Controller x2

  • SD Controller x2

  • XADC

  • Arm PrimeCell DMA Controller

  • DDR Memory

  • USB 2.0 x2

Running

Direct Linux boot of a generic ARM upstream Linux kernel:

$ qemu-system-aarch64 -M xilinx-zynq-a9 \
      -dtb zynq-zc702.dtb  -serial null -serial mon:stdio \
      -display none  -m 1024 \
      -initrd rootfs.cpio.gz -kernel zImage

For configuring the boot-mode provide the following on the command line:

-machine boot-mode=qspi

Supported values are jtag, sd, qspi, nor.