[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC][PPC] openbios support

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 12/19/08, laurent@lvivier.info <laurent@lvivier.info> wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:54:54AM +0100, laurent@lvivier.info wrote:
>  >> >Laurent Vivier a écrit :
>  >> >> These two patches allows to load an openbios elf image instead of an
>  >> >> openhackware image.
>  >> >>
>  >> >> [PATCH 1/2][RFC] Modify hw/ppc_oldword.c to use qemu_ram_alloc().
>  >> >> [PATCH 2/2][RFC] Load an OpenBios ELF image instead of OpenHackware
>  >binary
>  >> >
>  >> >Great job! We are closer to get rid of OpenHackware.
>  >> >
>  >> >However I have tried those patches with the latest SVN from OpenBios,
>  >> >and I am unable to get the machine booting. Do we need other patches for
>  >> >OpenBios or QEMU? It would be nice to make them available, even if they
>  >> >are not ready for merge.
>  >>
>  >> Yes, we need more patches:
>  >>
>  >> - for qemu, an nvram cleanup I already sent some month ago, and a little PCI
>  >cleanup patch.
>  >
>  >Could you please resent it? I will apply it if everything is ok.
>
>
> Here it is.
>
>  Note that the NVRAM is stored into a file.

One problem with this is that the file is written to current
directory, so running Qemu leaves  these files everywhere. Maybe the
user should explicitly request using a NVRAM file and with that also
specify the location of it?