Il lun 3 feb 2020, 23:36 Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru> ha scritto:
> > > What partition formats would have to be supported? > > MBR, GPT, is there anything else? "Support" is limited to converting a > number after command to [start, size] couple. I am not going for file > systems. > > > But honestly I'm > > more worried about the networking part. > > Fair enough. > > > Yes, SLOF is big and slow. petitboot is not petit at all either, and > > has the disadvantage that you have to find a way to run GRUB afterwards. > > But would a similarly minimal OF implementation (no network, almost no > > interpret so no Forth, device tree built entirely in the host, etc.) > > be just as big and slow? > > I doubt. We will be getting rid of unnecessary drivers, bus scanning > code (SCSI, PCI), device tree synchronization. > What I mean is, if you write a firmware that exposes a minimal OF device interface but runs it in the guest, and does a hypercall for everything else, would it be as big and slow as SLOF? Paolo > > > -- > Alexey > >
