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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Fabien Chouteau" <chouteau@adacore.com>,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
	"Artyom Tarasenko" <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:00:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365202829.17535.15@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A83008CB-61BF-431E-9FE8-58D56151DD1E@suse.de> (from agraf@suse.de on Thu Apr  4 06:59:24 2013)

On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
> 
> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
> > particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what  
> the
> > hardware actually does and I thus won't accept random changes just
> > because they happen to be in Leon3 code. There's nothing  
> conceptually
> > wrong with loading ELF code so I'm positive we will find a solution  
> to
> > accommodate all use cases in some way. :)
> 
> I think it makes a lot of sense to support loading -kernel as an ELF  
> binary. I don't think it's a good idea to allow -kernel without any  
> BIOS. We do that on the e500 machines and so far it's mostly hurt us.

If by "mostly hurt us" you mean allowed things to work without having  
to do a bunch of hacking to create a paravirt U-Boot and/or implement a  
bunch of emulation that we don't really need otherwise.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-05 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03 16:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] PPC PReP: Use ElF kernel on PReP Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] PPC PReP: Load ELF kernel Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] PPC PReP: Use kernel entry to set nip at reset Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:59   ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04  8:37     ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-04  9:26       ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 16:19         ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-04  9:46       ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04  9:50         ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04  9:57           ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 11:53             ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-04 11:59               ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-05 23:00                 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-04-06  9:01                   ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-08 17:52                     ` Scott Wood
2013-07-04  8:35                       ` Julio Guerra
2013-07-10  9:16                         ` Julio Guerra
2013-04-06  9:07                   ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-06 11:27                     ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-06 11:38                       ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-06 13:08                         ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-06 20:07                         ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Edgar E. Iglesias
2013-04-06 20:12                           ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-07  0:52                             ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2013-04-04 12:43               ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:17                 ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-04 16:20                   ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:26                     ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 16:30                       ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:34                         ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 16:41                           ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:51                             ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 16:52                               ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 22:32                                 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 22:35                                   ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:46                         ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 16:51                           ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 17:08                             ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 17:22                       ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-05  9:19                         ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-05  9:30                           ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 17:05                   ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-05  2:32             ` Rob Landley
2013-04-04 11:16       ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-04 16:18         ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] PPC PReP: Use ElF kernel on PReP Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 17:32   ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-04  8:17     ` Fabien Chouteau

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