[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 28.03.2011, at 12:51, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 03/28/2011 12:30 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> diff --git a/pc-bios/README b/pc-bios/README >>> index 3fc0944..646a31a 100644 >>> --- a/pc-bios/README >>> +++ b/pc-bios/README >>> @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ >>> The included image for PowerPC (for 32 an

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

2011-03-28 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 03/28/2011 12:30 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 25.03.2011, at 04:21, David Gibson wrote: Currently, the emulated pSeries machine requires the use of the -kernel parameter in order to explicitly load a guest kernel. This means booting from the virtual disk, cdrom or network is not possible.

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

2011-03-28 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 03/28/2011 12:30 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: diff --git a/pc-bios/README b/pc-bios/README index 3fc0944..646a31a 100644 --- a/pc-bios/README +++ b/pc-bios/README @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ The included image for PowerPC (for 32 and 64 bit PPC CPUs), Sparc32 and Sparc64 are built from OpenBIOS SVN

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 25.03.2011, at 04:21, David Gibson wrote: > Currently, the emulated pSeries machine requires the use of the > -kernel parameter in order to explicitly load a guest kernel. This > means booting from the virtual disk, cdrom or network is not possible. > > This patch addresses this limitation b

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

2011-03-23 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 08:55:53PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:51 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:30 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > > +- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware > > > + implementation for

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

2011-03-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:51 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:30 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > +- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware > > + implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware. The image currently > > + in qemu is built from gi

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

2011-03-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:30 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > +- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware > + implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware. The image currently > + in qemu is built from git tag qemu-slof-20110323. > + For those who can't wait to check it out .