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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:08:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 08/14] powerpc/ppc64: add HV putchar
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To: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
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On 08.02.2016 19:53, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Add the hvcall for putchar and use it in puts. That, along with a
> couple more lines in start to prepare for C code, and a branch to
> main(), gets us "hello world". Run with
> 
> qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries            \
>         -bios powerpc/boot_rom.bin      \
>         -display none -serial stdio     \
>         -kernel powerpc/selftest.elf
> 
> (We're still not relocating yet, that comes in a later patch. Thus,
>  testing hello-world at this point requires a hacked QEMU and linking
>  the unit test at QEMU's kernel load address.)

Is that comment still valid? I thought that's what the boot_rom.bin was
good for?

Apart from that, this patch looks fine to me.

 Thomas