Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image to qemu-slof-20151103

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image to qemu-slof-20151103

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 11/03/2015 01:22 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> The changes are:
> 1. supports recent binutils;
> 2. 64bit BARs behind PCI bridges supported;
> 3. Many fixes for USB keyboard support - keys, XHCI;
> 4. virtio-vga support.


Forgot mention that this binary was build using:

gcc version 5.2.1 20151001 (GCC)
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.25.51.20150930

This might explain why the patch is so big.


>
> The full changelog is:
>    > version: update to 20151103
>    > documentation: Add a clause about signing off
>    > qemu/js2x/client: Support binutils >= 2.25.1
>    > Fix special keys on USB
>    > Fix function keys on USB
>    > pci-scan: program 64-bit mem bar range in pci-bridge bar
>    > Allow to build SLOF on Little Endian host
>    > usb-xhci: add keyboard support
>    > usb-xhci: ready the link trb early
>    > usb-xhci: scan usb high speed ports
>    > usb-xhci: bulk improve event handling loop
>    > usb-xhci: return on allocation failure
>    > usb-xhci: add delay in shutdown path
>    > usb-xhci: event trbs does not need link trb
>    > usb-hid: refactor usb key reading
>    > takeover: Fix header includes
>    > board-js2x: Add missing file dma-function.fs
>    > vga: Add support for virtio-vga
>    > qemu-vga: Use MMIO BAR instead of legacy IO ports
>    > slof: Change call_c() function to a proper assembler function
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> ---
>   pc-bios/README   |   2 +-
>   pc-bios/slof.bin | Bin 915584 -> 913256 bytes
>   roms/SLOF        |   2 +-
>   3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/pc-bios/README b/pc-bios/README
> index e4154ab..d260c1b 100644
> --- a/pc-bios/README
> +++ b/pc-bios/README
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
>   - SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
>     implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware.  The sources are at
>     https://github.com/aik/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
> -  built from git tag qemu-slof-20150813.
> +  built from git tag qemu-slof-20151103.
>
>   - sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
>     legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as



-- 
Alexey