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Subject: Re: QEMU fails to boot Alpine RISCV64?
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From: Naomi Rennie-Waldock <naomi.renniewaldock@gmail.com>
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Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com> 
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wrote:

 > I'm trying to run it with:
 >
 > qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -cpu rv64 -m 4G -kernel
 > "images/$image/vmlinuz-lts" -initrd "images/$image/initramfs-lts"
 > -append "console=ttyS0" -nographic
 >
 > And it just prints all the bios stuff (so that works) and then hangs
 > when trying to give control over to Alpine. Hepl?

OpenSBI won't decompress the kernel, you'll need to do that yourself 
(eg: zcat vmlinuz-lts > vmlinux-lts ).
Some of the needed drivers are also not yet enabled for RISC-V, I've 
submitted a patch for that:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/77727