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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Mark Langsdorf" <mark.langsdorf@calxeda.com>,
	"Alexey Kardashevskiy" <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Fabien Chouteau" <chouteau@adacore.com>,
	"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
	"Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	"Michael Walle" <michael@walle.cc>,
	"Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
	"Paul Brook" <paul@codesourcery.com>,
	"Anthony Liguori" <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	qemu-ppc <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
	"Aurelien Jarno" <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
	"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] turn firmware image filename into a machine option
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:46:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524AD24C.1020709@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380634912.5280.49.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org>

Am 01.10.2013 15:41, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
> On Di, 2013-10-01 at 14:20 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 01.10.2013 14:16, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
>>>> -bios we're stuck with because it's a legacy
>>>> option,
>>>
>>> What is legacy about it?
>>>
>>> Well, the x86-centric name of course.  Thats why the machine option is
>>> named 'firmware' instead.
>>>
>>> It also doesn't use QemuOpts, which is fixed by this patch.
>>>
>>> Anything else?
>>
>> The basic assumption that there is only one piece of firmware. Just like
>> -bios, -machine firmware= will allow only one entry. sPAPR has two.
> 
> --verbose please.  What they are needed for?

SLOF and RTAS. SLOF is the firmware, and RTAS is requested by the OS
through OpenFirmware client interface.

It is not device-specific, it is more or less part of the firmware but
copied to RAM. I'll let Alex or Alexey comment in more details.

Cheers,
Andreas

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-01 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-01  9:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] turn firmware image filename into a machine option Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 10:55 ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 11:22   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 11:32     ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 12:16       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 12:20         ` Andreas Färber
2013-10-01 13:41           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 13:46             ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2013-10-01 14:23               ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-10-01 14:40                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 14:45                   ` Alexander Graf
2013-10-01 21:23                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-02  1:18                   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-10-01 13:00         ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 14:57           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-01 15:05           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-01 15:12             ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-01 15:28               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-01 15:42                 ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found] ` <524AB29F.3030906@suse.de>
2013-10-01 13:32   ` Gerd Hoffmann

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