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On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 11:21 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> How does real hardware store petitboot? If it's flash, you could pass it
> in using -pflash and thus model things even more closely and allow users
> to just take the ROM image as is.

It is a flash image, we could use an Open Power machine flash image "as-is"
provided we taught qemu to extract skiboot (aka OPAL) from it.

Cheers,
Ben.