From: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:08:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926140804.3b425fe9@thhw500> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C700BFF-B087-4BAB-870A-1651DD99F0BC@suse.de>
Am Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:56:07 +0200
schrieb Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>:
>
>
> On 26.09.2012, at 03:18, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:03:10AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
[snip]
> >> spapr-nvram:
> >>
> >> if (!drive || checksum_is_bad(drive))
> >> autogenerate_nvram_contents();
> >
> > Actually, I'm planning for the initialization of the content to be
> > done from the guest firmware.
>
> Does the guest have all information necessary to construct a workable nvram image? If so, then yes, that's even better.
At least SLOF already contains the code to initialize the PAPR-style
NVRAM partitions from scratch. So as soon as SLOF can work with this
new NVRAM devices, it should be able to initialize the required layout.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-21 3:08 [Qemu-devel] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine David Gibson
2012-09-22 13:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Blue Swirl
2012-09-22 14:16 ` Alexander Graf
2012-09-22 14:26 ` Blue Swirl
2012-09-24 0:34 ` David Gibson
2012-09-26 20:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-09-26 20:51 ` Alexander Graf
2012-09-29 11:46 ` Blue Swirl
2012-09-29 12:54 ` Alexander Graf
2012-09-29 14:11 ` Blue Swirl
2012-09-29 15:24 ` Alexander Graf
2012-09-24 0:31 ` David Gibson
2012-09-24 10:38 ` Alexander Graf
2012-09-26 0:27 ` David Gibson
2012-09-26 1:03 ` Alexander Graf
2012-09-26 1:18 ` David Gibson
2012-09-26 8:56 ` Alexander Graf
2012-09-26 12:08 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2012-09-24 10:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-09-24 12:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " David Gibson
2012-09-24 13:44 ` Alexander Graf
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