Tutorial: Enable CoreSight on DragonBoard 410c

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Activate CoreSight on DragonBoard 410c

I am poor and all Juno Boards in our lab are under use of fuzzing (leave fuzzing away).

So I have to buy a cheap board with CoreSight support, with lab funding.

BTW, welcome to take a look at my blog, it is almost all in Chinese.

Feel free to ask me if you have any question, luhy2017 [at] mail [dot] sustech [dot] edu [dot] cn

Relevant Resources

Linaro Replacing Kernel

Kernel Download

  • Clone kernel repository from Linaro (If you’re in China, use American proxy)

git clone http://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git
  • Configure Kernel

Find all CoreSight related configuration and turn them on.


cd kernel

# Important, choose official distribution

git checkout origin/release/qcomlt-5.15

# Important, otherwise available .config is different

export ARCH=arm64

export CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-none-linux-gnu-

# Configure

make defconfig

make menuconfig

Basically, all related configurations is in Kernel hacking -> arm64 Debugging -> CoreSight Tracing Support

  • Compile Kernel

make -j$(nproc) Image.gz dtbs

make -j$(nproc) modules
  • Make Image

cat arch/$ARCH/boot/Image.gz arch/$ARCH/boot/dts/qcom/apq8016-sbc.dtb > Image.gz+dtb

echo "not a ramdisk" > ramdisk.img

# Change the `root=/dev/mmcblkXpX` to our rootfs, default is `mmcblk0p14`

# If not sure, find them in Linux booting log

abootimg --create boot-db410c.img -k Image.gz+dtb -r ramdisk.img \

           -c pagesize=2048 -c kerneladdr=0x80008000 -c ramdiskaddr=0x81000000 \

           -c cmdline="root=/dev/mmcblk0p10 rw rootwait console=tty0 console=ttyMSM0,115200n8"
  • Flash Kernel Image

fastboot flash boot boot-db410c.img
  • Install Modules

Because we updated the kernel, it is likely that our modules need updating too.


# In kernel directory

mkdir db410c-modules

make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=./db410c-modules

Move the content in the folder into /lib/modules.

  • Details

    1. Insert SD Card will effect the name of rootfs and cause boot failure, remove it before booting.

    2. During my test, booting may fail, try boot again.

  • Results

We can see ETM components in /sys/bus/coresight/devices


root@linaro-developer:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/

cti_cpu0  cti_cpu2  cti_sys0  etm0  etm2  funnel0  replicator0  tmc_etf0  tpiu0

cti_cpu1  cti_cpu3  cti_sys1  etm1  etm3  funnel1  stm0         tmc_etr0
Getting started with CoreSight on DragonBoard 410c