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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Saving Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:38:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606081538.26830.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F3361980C028A48143FD437FF8B0@phx.gbl>

On Thursday 08 June 2006 15:31, Blue Swirl wrote:
> >Is there any functionality, existing or planned or patched, to save Sparc
> >NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions and reload it when QEMU starts up ?
>
> Currently nvram is used to pass some information from Qemu to BIOS. Some
> other mechanism would need to be implemented instead, if nvram contents
> can't be used anymore. For example, some memory at fixed location.

Or just make qemu override certain sections of the nvram. I'm assuming there 
is some sort of structure to the nvram contents, or at least particular areas 
reserved for/commonly used by the BIOS and the OS.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-08 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08 14:31 [Qemu-devel] Saving Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions Blue Swirl
2006-06-08 14:38 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-06-08 15:47   ` Blue Swirl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-08 13:24 Armistead, Jason
2006-06-08 13:40 ` Johannes Schindelin

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