On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:28:29PM -0500, Marty E. Plummer wrote: > Hello, > > First off, thank you for the work you've done on the ppc64 support, it > has been very useful. I'm currently working on a coreboot port for the > talos ii line of systems (which means more ppc64 support, support > specifically for the power9 sforza chip, and specific mainboard support. > My plate is very full lol) and have been using qemu to debug the > bootblock.
Ok. I'm assuming that's with the powernv machine type?
> It has been very useful for that, but I'm now at the point where I need
> to jump to romstage, and that's where it gets tricky. qemu parses the rom
> image and looks for a ffs header, locates skiboot on it, and jumps straight
> to that. Not exactly ideal for debugging something not produced from
> op-build.
Um.. I'm not sure what code you're talking about. AFAICT the pnv code
just starts the cpus at address 0x10.
> Do you think it would be within your wheelhouse to provide a generic, non-ffs
> pnor interface for loading arbitary rom images? It would be of great help if
> you could. (This would still hopefully have the bmc support code as
> well, as I'm still needing to support a system using one).
Uh.. and I'm not really sure what you're asking for here.
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