Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 07/01/2020 20:39, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 12:55 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On 07/01/2020 01:15, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>>> Question: does Petitboot already replaces SLOF in every possible
>>> scenario for all
>>> the spapr machine features?
>>
>> Petitboot kernel+initramdisk almost replaces SLOF + GRUB.
> 
> Is this necessarily a good thing?

The bare metal host and the powernv machine in QEMU do not use grub,
they use petitboot which parses all grub configs and supports quite a lot.

Using Linux for a boot loader is not powerpc-only thing really, some
folks do this too (forgot who, just heard this at the KVM forum).

> Personally I quite like the fact
> that I can use the same bootloader across x86, ppc64 and aarch64.

I am not suggesting removing SLOF soon, and I'll probably add support
for "disk-label" later and this may be just enough for grub to boot from
a disk.


-- 
Alexey