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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PMAC NVRAM cleanup
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Le jeudi 01 mai 2008 =C3=A0 17:49 +0300, Blue Swirl a =C3=A9crit :
> On 5/1/08, Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I'm trying to boot openbios on PPC target (for the moment I'm only a=
ble to
> > load yaboot).
>=20
> Great! Which machine are you using? OpenBIOS has some support for
> things called briq, mol and pearpc, are any of those useful?

I'm working with files from pearpc.

> >  This patch is a cleanup of PMAC nvram.
> >
> >  It stores nvram in a file and create valid partitions.
>=20
> In no other machine nvram is loaded from a file. On Sparc most
> configuration needs can be addressed by using -prom-env switch.

In fact I took syntax and some parts from ds1225y which loads nvram from
a file.

I will improve this part (better default filename, switch to specify
filename and -prom-env management) later.

Thank you for your comments. I'm going to repost a patch based on
structures and functions found in hw/firmware_abi.h

Regards,
Laurent