Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-03-01 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:19:38PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > On 23/02/2021 14:07, David Gibson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > The PAPR platform which describes an OS environment that's presented by > > > a combination of a hyp

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-25 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Excerpts from Greg Kurz's message of February 23, 2021 1:01 am: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:48:51 +1100 > Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> Ping? >> >> I need community support here :) I am hearing that having this mode >> helps heaps with development in fully emulated environments as this >> skip

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-23 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 23/02/2021 14:07, David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: The PAPR platform which describes an OS environment that's presented by a combination of a hypervisor and firmware. The features it specifies require collaboration between the firmwa

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-23 Thread BALATON Zoltan
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 04:01:00PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 23/02/2021 14:07, David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: #endif /* HW_SPAPR_H */ VOF is pretty much inherently papr specific,

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 23/02/2021 16:28, David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 04:01:00PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 23/02/2021 14:07, David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: The PAPR platform which describes an OS environment that's presente

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 04:01:00PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > On 23/02/2021 14:07, David Gibson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > The PAPR platform which describes an OS environment that's presented by > > > a combination of a hyp

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 04:01:06PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:48:51 +1100 > Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > Ping? > > > > I need community support here :) I am hearing that having this mode > > helps heaps with development in fully emulated environments as this > > skip

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 23/02/2021 14:07, David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: The PAPR platform which describes an OS environment that's presented by a combination of a hypervisor and firmware. The features it specifies require collaboration between the firmwa

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:02:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > The PAPR platform which describes an OS environment that's presented by > a combination of a hypervisor and firmware. The features it specifies > require collaboration between the firmware and the hypervisor. > > Since the beg

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:48:51PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > Ping? > > I need community support here :) I am hearing that having this mode helps > heaps with development in fully emulated environments as this skips SLOF > entirely, for example. Another rumour I am hearing is that there

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread Greg Kurz
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:48:51 +1100 Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > Ping? > > I need community support here :) I am hearing that having this mode > helps heaps with development in fully emulated environments as this > skips SLOF entirely, for example. Another rumour I am hearing is that > there

Re: [PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-22 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
Ping? I need community support here :) I am hearing that having this mode helps heaps with development in fully emulated environments as this skips SLOF entirely, for example. Another rumour I am hearing is that there is interest in running grub in the userspace which this VOF thing makes han

[PATCH qemu v13] spapr: Implement Open Firmware client interface

2021-02-09 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
The PAPR platform which describes an OS environment that's presented by a combination of a hypervisor and firmware. The features it specifies require collaboration between the firmware and the hypervisor. Since the beginning, the runtime component of the firmware (RTAS) has been implemented as a 2