Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 00/77] ppc: Add "native" POWER8 platform

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 22:24 +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > In practice we should read the partition tables, I don't like hard
> > coded offsets... But we should probably create a proper "flash driver"
> > that does a bunch of this, and also adds the BMC style flash interface
> > so OPAL can write to nvram.
> 
> yes that would be better but I don't measure what it takes to implement 
> the LPC/AHB bridge to access the PNOR.

Yeah that's probably a little bit of work, but then there's also work
being done to protect the flash using IPMI commands to do the flashing,
so that could be an alternate option. I like emulating more of the BMC
though, including the flash controller, as it would improve our testing
coverage.

Cheers,
Ben.