> Am 28.11.2015 um 08:59 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <b...@kernel.crashing.org>: > >> On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 11:21 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> How does real hardware store petitboot? If it's flash, you could pass it >> in using -pflash and thus model things even more closely and allow users >> to just take the ROM image as is. > > It is a flash image, we could use an Open Power machine flash image "as-is" > provided we taught qemu to extract skiboot (aka OPAL) from it.
That's probably the best way. If it's memory mapped, you might not even have to extract anything - just jump to its location ;). The -kernel syntax is useful to have, but should really be something "on top" of the normal system boot rather than its primary boot interface. Alex
