Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-03-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 06/03/20 02:17, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> Okay, that's great! I'll take a look next week. > > Any luck with this? Not really, perhaps today. But I don't object to already including a minimal version of this in 5.0 as long as: - it doesn't implement read and write - it is called x-

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-03-05 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 27/02/2020 17:35, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 27/02/20 00:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> >> >> On 26/02/2020 22:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> On 26/02/20 00:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 21/02/2020 19:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 27/02/20 00:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > On 26/02/2020 22:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 26/02/20 00:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 21/02/2020 19:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > I am not quite sure I understood the req

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-26 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 26/02/2020 22:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 26/02/20 00:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> >> >> On 21/02/2020 19:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: I am not quite sure I understood the request. Write my own small firmware and replace GRUB w

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 26/02/20 00:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > On 21/02/2020 19:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>> I am not quite sure I understood the request. Write my own small >>> firmware and replace GRUB with it? The firmware from 5/5 reads first 2 >>> sec

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-25 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 21/02/2020 19:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> I am not quite sure I understood the request. Write my own small >> firmware and replace GRUB with it? The firmware from 5/5 reads first 2 >> sectors and the entire PReP, I could add there stuff if tha

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > I am not quite sure I understood the request. Write my own small > firmware and replace GRUB with it? The firmware from 5/5 reads first 2 > sectors and the entire PReP, I could add there stuff if that helps (I > have "work in progress" patch for the

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-20 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 20/02/2020 21:01, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 20/02/20 07:16, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> This is another attempt to implement minimalistic >> Open Firmware Client Interface in QEMU. >> >> With this thing, I can boot unmodified Ubuntu 18.04 and Fedora 30 >> directly from the disk without SLO

Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 20/02/20 07:16, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > This is another attempt to implement minimalistic > Open Firmware Client Interface in QEMU. > > With this thing, I can boot unmodified Ubuntu 18.04 and Fedora 30 > directly from the disk without SLOF. > > A useful discussion happened esrlier: > htt

[PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-02-19 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
This is another attempt to implement minimalistic Open Firmware Client Interface in QEMU. With this thing, I can boot unmodified Ubuntu 18.04 and Fedora 30 directly from the disk without SLOF. A useful discussion happened esrlier: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/f881c2e7-be92-9695-6e19-2dd88cb