Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 0/2] ppc: Allow "-prom-env" parameter for the pseries machine, too

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:35:39AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Here's a slightly updated version of the patch that enables the "-prom-env"
> parameter for the pseries machine. The code is now only executed if
> nb_prom_envs > 0. That means if the user did _not_ specify a "-prom-env"
> parameter, there is no change in behavior (i.e. SLOF will initialize the
> NVRAM instead). This fixes the problem with grub2 not working because it does
> not find the "/options/real-mode?" property in the device tree.
> 
> If you currently want to use the "-prom-env" parameter and grub2 together,
> you simply have to specify -prom-env "real-mode?=true" to get it working.
> This will be fixed by a later update to SLOF, so that you then do not have to
> specify this explicitely anymore.
> 
> The second patch adds a test case for the -prom-env parameter on the
> pseries machine.
> 
> The patches have to be applied on top of David's ppc-for-2.8 branch since
> they rely on the chrp_nvram rework patches that are queued there.

Applied to ppc-for-2.8, replacing earlier versions.

> 
> Thomas Huth (2):
>   spapr_nvram: Pre-initialize the NVRAM to support the -prom-env
>     parameter
>   tests: Add pseries machine to the prom-env-test, too
> 
>  hw/nvram/spapr_nvram.c |  6 ++++++
>  tests/prom-env-test.c  | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

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