On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 15:39 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 07:15:26PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote: > > Receive updates from SLOF about the updated rtas-base. > > A separate patch for SLOF [1] adds functionality to invoke a > > a private HCALL whenever OS issues instantiate-rtas with > > a new rtas-base. > > > > This is required as qemu needs to know the updated rtas-base > > as it allocates error reporting structure in RTAS space upon > > a machine check exception. > > This also seems really awkward. Specifically it seems like a rather > arbitrary and complex division of what qemu's responsible for and what > SLOF is responsible for. > > Instead I'd suggest that we add an H_INSTANTIATE_RTAS hcall, and we > move the loading of the spapr-rtas blob from normal reset to when that > hcall is invoked.
Beware that SLOF needs to call RTAS for its own reasons... So it would be instanciated twice. Cheers, Ben.
