On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 04:15:40PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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.
I don't see that that would cause a big problem, or am I missing
something?
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