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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# boots an OpenWrt aarch64 image with qemu for development purposes
+#
+# Copyright Albrecht Lohofener 2024 <albrechtloh@gmx.de>
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+# Assign arguments to variables
+IMAGE_FILE="$1"
+SSH_PORT=8022
+
+qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a53 -nographic -nodefaults -m 256 \
+-bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd \
+-blockdev driver=raw,node-name=hd0,cache.direct=on,file.driver=file,file.filename=$IMAGE_FILE \
+-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd0 \
+-device virtio-net,netdev=qlan0 -netdev user,id=qlan0,net=192.168.1.0/24,hostfwd=tcp::$SSH_PORT-192.168.1.1:22 \
+-device virtio-net,netdev=qwan0 -netdev user,id=qwan0 \
+-serial stdio
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