On 19.06.2013, at 22:40, Anthony Liguori wrote: > RTAS is a hypervisor provided binary blob that a guest loads and > calls into to execute certain functions. It's similar to the > vsyscall page in Linux or the short lived VMCI paravirt interface > from VMware. > > The QEMU implementation of the RTAS blob is simply a passthrough > that proxies all RTAS calls to the hypervisor via an hypercall. > > While we pass a CPU argument for hypercall handling in QEMU, we > don't pass it for RTAS calls. Since some RTAs calls require > making hypercalls (normally RTAS is implemented as guest code) we > have nasty hacks to allow that. > > Add a CPU argument to RTAS call handling so we can more easily > invoke hypercalls just as guest code would. > > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
Thanks, applied to ppc-next. Alex
