This target generates images that can be used on ARM machines with EFI support (e.g EDKII/TianoCore or U-Boot with bootefi). There are two subtargets: - armv7 for 32-bit machines - armv8 for 64-bit machines The kernel and filesystem images can also be used directly by QEMU: Run with qemu-system-arm # boot with initramfs embedded in qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt -m 64 -kernel openwrt-armsr-armv7-generic-initramfs-kernel.bin # boot with accel=kvm qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt,accel=kvm -cpu host -m 64 -kernel openwrt-armsr-armv7-generic-initramfs-kernel.bin # boot with a separate rootfs qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt -m 64 -kernel openwrt-armsr-armv7-generic-kernel.bin \ -drive file=openwrt-armsr-armv7-generic-ext4-rootfs.img,format=raw,if=virtio -append 'root=/dev/vda rootwait' # boot with local dir as rootfs qemu-system-arm -nographic -M virt -m 64 -kernel openwrt-armsr-armv7-generic-kernel.bin \ -fsdev local,id=rootdev,path=root-armsr/,security_model=none \ -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=rootdev,mount_tag=/dev/root \ -append 'rootflags=trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,cache=loose rootfstype=9p' Run with kvmtool # start a named machine lkvm run -k openwrt-armsr-armv7-zImage -i openwrt-armsr-armv7-rootfs.cpio --name armsr0 # start with virtio-9p rootfs lkvm run -k openwrt-armsr-armv7-zImage -d root-armsr/ # stop "armsr0" lkvm stop --name armsr0 # stop all lkvm stop --all The multi-platform ARMv8 target can be used with QEMU: qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic \ -kernel openwrt-armsr-armv8-generic-initramfs-kernel.bin \ With a EDKII or U-Boot binary for the QEMU ARM virtual machines, you can use these images in EFI mode: 32-bit: gunzip -c bin/targets/armsr/armv7/openwrt-armsr-armv7-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz > openwrt-arm-32.img qemu-system-arm -nographic \ -cpu cortex-a15 -machine virt \ -bios bin/targets/armsr/armv7/u-boot-qemu_armv7/u-boot.bin \ -smp 1 -m 1024 \ -device virtio-rng-pci \ -drive file=openwrt-arm-32.img,format=raw,index=0,media=disk \ -netdev user,id=testlan -net nic,netdev=testlan \ -netdev user,id=testwan -net nic,netdev=testwan 64-bit: gunzip -c bin/targets/armsr/armv8/openwrt-armsr-armv8-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz > openwrt-arm-64.img qemu-system-aarch64 -nographic \ -cpu cortex-a53 -machine virt \ -bios bin/targets/armsr/armv8/u-boot-qemu_armv8/u-boot.bin \ -smp 1 -m 1024 \ -device virtio-rng-pci \ -drive file=openwrt-arm-64.img,format=raw,index=0,media=disk \ -netdev user,id=testlan -net nic,netdev=testlan \ -netdev user,id=testwan -net nic,netdev=testwan One can obtain other EFI/BIOS binaries from: - Distribution packages (such as qemu-efi-arm and qemu-efi-aarch64 in Debian) - Community builds, like retrage/edk2-nightly: https://retrage.github.io/edk2-nightly/