Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 27/02/20 00:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
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> On 26/02/2020 22:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 26/02/20 00:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>
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>>> On 21/02/2020 19:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>> I am not quite sure I understood the request.  Write my own small
>>>>> firmware and replace GRUB with it? The firmware from 5/5 reads first 2
>>>>> sectors and the entire PReP, I could add there stuff if that helps (I
>>>>> have "work in progress" patch for the firmware with printk/etc borrowed
>>>>> from SLOF).
>>>>
>>>> Okay, that's great!  I'll take a look next week.
>>>
>>> Just to make sure I understood - you'll take a look on this series, you
>>> do not expect other patches on top, right?
>>
>> No, thanks.
>>
>>> ps. while I have your attention, what was the practical reason for
>>> including capstone to QEMU? Thanks,
>>
>> Newer versions of the binutils disassembler are GPLv3.
> 
> but why does qemu need this kind of disassembler at all? tcg does
> execution and it is not replaced by capstone.

For debugging (e.g. "x/5i $pc" from the monitor, or "-d in_asm" if
you're using TCG).

Paolo