From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Fabien Chouteau" <chouteau@adacore.com>,
qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"Artyom Tarasenko" <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:00:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365202829.17535.15@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A83008CB-61BF-431E-9FE8-58D56151DD1E@suse.de> (from agraf@suse.de on Thu Apr 4 06:59:24 2013)
On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>
> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
> > particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what
> the
> > hardware actually does and I thus won't accept random changes just
> > because they happen to be in Leon3 code. There's nothing
> conceptually
> > wrong with loading ELF code so I'm positive we will find a solution
> to
> > accommodate all use cases in some way. :)
>
> I think it makes a lot of sense to support loading -kernel as an ELF
> binary. I don't think it's a good idea to allow -kernel without any
> BIOS. We do that on the e500 machines and so far it's mostly hurt us.
If by "mostly hurt us" you mean allowed things to work without having
to do a bunch of hacking to create a paravirt U-Boot and/or implement a
bunch of emulation that we don't really need otherwise.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-05 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-03 16:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] PPC PReP: Use ElF kernel on PReP Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] PPC PReP: Load ELF kernel Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] PPC PReP: Use kernel entry to set nip at reset Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:59 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 8:37 ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-04 9:26 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 16:19 ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-04 9:46 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 9:50 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 9:57 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 11:53 ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-04 11:59 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-05 23:00 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-04-06 9:01 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-08 17:52 ` Scott Wood
2013-07-04 8:35 ` Julio Guerra
2013-07-10 9:16 ` Julio Guerra
2013-04-06 9:07 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-06 11:27 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-06 11:38 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-06 13:08 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-06 20:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Edgar E. Iglesias
2013-04-06 20:12 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-07 0:52 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2013-04-04 12:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:17 ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-04 16:20 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:26 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 16:30 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:34 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 16:41 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:51 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 16:52 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 22:32 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 22:35 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 16:46 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 16:51 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 17:08 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-04 17:22 ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-05 9:19 ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-05 9:30 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-04 17:05 ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-05 2:32 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-04 11:16 ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-04 16:18 ` Fabien Chouteau
2013-04-03 16:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] PPC PReP: Use ElF kernel on PReP Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 17:32 ` Andreas Färber
2013-04-04 8:17 ` Fabien Chouteau
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