From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Mark Langsdorf" <mark.langsdorf@calxeda.com>,
"Alexey Kardashevskiy" <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Fabien Chouteau" <chouteau@adacore.com>,
"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
"Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
"Michael Walle" <michael@walle.cc>,
"Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
"Paul Brook" <paul@codesourcery.com>,
"Anthony Liguori" <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
qemu-ppc <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
"Aurelien Jarno" <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] turn firmware image filename into a machine option
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:46:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524AD24C.1020709@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380634912.5280.49.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org>
Am 01.10.2013 15:41, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
> On Di, 2013-10-01 at 14:20 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 01.10.2013 14:16, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
>>>> -bios we're stuck with because it's a legacy
>>>> option,
>>>
>>> What is legacy about it?
>>>
>>> Well, the x86-centric name of course. Thats why the machine option is
>>> named 'firmware' instead.
>>>
>>> It also doesn't use QemuOpts, which is fixed by this patch.
>>>
>>> Anything else?
>>
>> The basic assumption that there is only one piece of firmware. Just like
>> -bios, -machine firmware= will allow only one entry. sPAPR has two.
>
> --verbose please. What they are needed for?
SLOF and RTAS. SLOF is the firmware, and RTAS is requested by the OS
through OpenFirmware client interface.
It is not device-specific, it is more or less part of the firmware but
copied to RAM. I'll let Alex or Alexey comment in more details.
Cheers,
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-01 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-01 9:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] turn firmware image filename into a machine option Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 10:55 ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 11:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 11:32 ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 12:16 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 12:20 ` Andreas Färber
2013-10-01 13:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 13:46 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2013-10-01 14:23 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-10-01 14:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 14:45 ` Alexander Graf
2013-10-01 21:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-02 1:18 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-10-01 13:00 ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 14:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-01 15:05 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 15:12 ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 15:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-01 15:42 ` Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <524AB29F.3030906@suse.de>
2013-10-01 13:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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