From: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aurelien@aurel32.net,
Peter <pjcreath+openbios@gmail.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: r6777 breaks running sun OPB images
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:18:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CD42A8.5010602@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580903271132i644ef5c0p1cf49c58cf82f215@mail.gmail.com>
Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 3/24/09, Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Sparc SS5-170 Open Boot PROM images run differently after this patch.
>>
>> In particular, POST is no longer run. I can provide the PROM image if
>> necessary for testing.
>>
>> Can we make NVRAM environment variables OBP compatible or persistent some
>> how so we can run either OBP or OpenBIOS?
>>
>
> Maybe, if there is a good spec for the variable format and other structures.
>
>
I think adding a persistent mode to NVRAM so it's contents can be either
generated for OpenBIOS like it is now or read from and written to a file
based on what Open Boot PROM does. That way you don't need to add a new
mode to Open BIOS and you don't need to know what Open Boot PROM does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-27 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-08 9:51 [Qemu-devel] [6777] Use firmware configuration instead of NVRAM ( initial patch by Aurelien Jarno) Blue Swirl
2009-03-22 21:33 ` Robert Reif
2009-03-24 10:59 ` [Qemu-devel] r6777 breaks running sun OPB images Robert Reif
2009-03-27 18:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2009-03-27 21:18 ` Robert Reif [this message]
2009-03-28 6:32 ` Blue Swirl
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