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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] RISC-V QEMU Port Submission v8
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To: Michael Clark <mjc@sifive.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Bastian Koppelmann <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Sagar Karandikar <sagark@eecs.berkeley.edu>, RISC-V Patches <patches@groups.riscv.org>

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 14:30 +1300, Michael Clark wrote:
> I'm currently working on some changes locally to split the firmware from
> the kernel image. Currently the kernel image is embedded in the firmware (r
> iscv-pk/bbl).

I was wondering about this just yesterday.

Will this eventually lead to a situation where we can have a single
firmware image which is shared between all guests, a la OVMF/AAVMF,
with grub and the kernels stored on the virtual disk itself, like
on most other architectures?

That should make it less awkward to add RISC-V support to libvirt,
plus I expect it to be kind of a requirement for full distribution
support, especially when it comes to updates and such.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization