Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> writes: >> The only current place I could think this could be remotely possible >> would be in simulator... and we should instead make the OPAL calls work >> properly in the simulator for all the RTAS functionality (that we care >> about). > > If you mean mambo, I tested that, at least the public version, and it doesn't > provide or need RTAS. > > On the other sims we ran without RTAS during the Power8 bringup, though it was > eventually used a little bit late in the cycle. In future we should be using > skiboot, or just putting logic directly into the kernel for early bringup - or > permanently :)
agreed on using skiboot. If we're going as far as booting a linux kernel, the overhead of loading skiboot is next to nothing in comparison. Or at least it should be. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
