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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: r6777 breaks running sun OPB images
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aurelien@aurel32.net, Peter <pjcreath+openbios@gmail.com>

Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 3/24/09, Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net> wrote:
>   
>> Sparc SS5-170  Open Boot PROM images run differently after this patch.
>>
>>  In particular, POST is no longer run.  I can provide the PROM image if
>> necessary for testing.
>>
>>  Can we make NVRAM environment variables OBP compatible or persistent some
>> how so we can run either OBP or OpenBIOS?
>>     
>
> Maybe, if there is a good spec for the variable format and other structures.
>
>   
I think adding a persistent mode to NVRAM so it's contents can be either
generated for OpenBIOS like it is now or read from and written to a file
based on what Open Boot PROM does.  That way you don't need to add a new
mode to Open BIOS and you don't need to know what Open Boot PROM does.