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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine |
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Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:08:04 +0200 |
Am Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:56:07 +0200
schrieb Alexander Graf <address@hidden>:
>
>
> On 26.09.2012, at 03:18, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:03:10AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
[snip]
> >> spapr-nvram:
> >>
> >> if (!drive || checksum_is_bad(drive))
> >> autogenerate_nvram_contents();
> >
> > Actually, I'm planning for the initialization of the content to be
> > done from the guest firmware.
>
> Does the guest have all information necessary to construct a workable nvram
> image? If so, then yes, that's even better.
At least SLOF already contains the code to initialize the PAPR-style
NVRAM partitions from scratch. So as soon as SLOF can work with this
new NVRAM devices, it should be able to initialize the required layout.
Thomas
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine, David Gibson, 2012/09/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine, David Gibson, 2012/09/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine, David Gibson, 2012/09/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine,
Thomas Huth <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/24