Re: [Qemu-riscv] RISC-V: Include ROM in QEMU

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:22:47 PDT (-0700), address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As a test of the waters, how would the QEMU community feel about
> including the RISC-V OpenSBI project as a ROM submodule?
>
> The idea would be to have OpenSBI (similar to ATF for ARM and a BIOS
> for x86) included by default to simplify the QEMU RISC-V boot process
> for users. This would remove the requirement for users/developers to
> build a RISC-V firmware. The goal here is to allow people to just
> download and run their kernel as easily as they currently do for x86.
>
> We would make sure that it can be disabled! That is users/developers
> can use their own (or none) if they want to. The idea here is just to
> simplify the boot process, not lock anyone out.

I like it.  My only question is about the mechanics of doing so: are we just
going to assume there's a cross compiler in PATH?  I guess that's less of a
usability headache than needing a complier and a firmware.