From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CE6C33CB1 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E27E2075B for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:05:54 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 6E27E2075B Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Received: from localhost ([::1]:34776 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irI93-00042i-EK for qemu-devel@archiver.kernel.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:05:53 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irI8B-0003Vz-11 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:05:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irI87-0000N3-1q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:04:58 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irI86-0000Ml-Rp; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:04:54 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2803AAAB8; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:04:45 +0100 From: Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Such=E1nek?= To: Thomas Huth Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF Message-ID: <20200114090445.GD4113@kitsune.suse.cz> References: <20200103074404.30853-1-aik@ozlabs.ru> <3cf3e733-199a-61ba-7aaa-05e9546cd4d9@ozlabs.ru> <81f1f752-3ada-2c8d-38b7-1344c7633e14@ozlabs.ru> <36763452-a67f-b663-42d2-48cd99995a0c@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <36763452-a67f-b663-42d2-48cd99995a0c@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Michael Roth , Jose Ricardo Ziviani , Fabiano Rosas , Alexey Kardashevskiy , Michael Ellerman , Daniel Henrique Barboza , Andrea Bolognani , Nicholas Piggin , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Mackerras , Sam Bobroff , qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Leonardo Augusto =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guimar=E3es?= Garcia , Leonardo Bras , David Gibson Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 12:23:13PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 07/01/2020 10.39, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 12:55 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> On 07/01/2020 01:15, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: > >>> Question: does Petitboot already replaces SLOF in every possible > >>> scenario for all > >>> the spapr machine features? > >> > >> Petitboot kernel+initramdisk almost replaces SLOF + GRUB. > > > > Is this necessarily a good thing? Personally I quite like the fact > > that I can use the same bootloader across x86, ppc64 and aarch64. > > AFAIK petitboot can use the grub config files ... and it is already used > on bare metal POWER8 and POWER9 systems, so it should not be such a big > change to use it for POWER KVM guests, too? Except it is not really pSeries then anymore. Thanks Michal