Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [GIT PULL for qemu-pseries REPOST] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 02:14:39PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
> Alexey/David,
> 
> With the SLOF changes, QEMU cannot resize the RTAS blob. Resizing is
> required for FWNMI support which extends the RTAS blob to include an
> error log upon a machine check.
> 
> The check to valid RTAS buffer fails in the guest because the rtas-size
> updated in QEMU is not reflecting in the guest.
> 
> Any workaround for this?

Well, we should still be able to do it, it just means fwnmi would need
a SLOF change.  It's an inconvenience, but not really a big deal.

> The following FWNMI work which is under review modifies the rtas-size to
> accommodate the error log:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2019-06/msg00142.html
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Aravinda
> 
> On Friday 19 July 2019 08:15 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > I messed up with my local git so reposting.
> > 
> > The following changes since commit 216965b20b04fbf74e0ce3a3175a9171dba210de:
> > 
> >   ppc/pnv: update skiboot to v6.4 (2019-07-18 16:49:57 +1000)
> > 
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> > 
> >   address@hidden:aik/qemu.git tags/qemu-slof-20190719
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to 300118db53cc454b049d64418c7b2588165a1c35:
> > 
> >   pseries: Update SLOF firmware image (2019-07-19 12:43:27 +1000)
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Alexey Kardashevskiy (1):
> >       pseries: Update SLOF firmware image
> > 
> >  pc-bios/README   |   2 +-
> >  pc-bios/slof.bin | Bin 926432 -> 926784 bytes
> >  roms/SLOF        |   2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> > *** Note: this is not for master, this is for pseries
> > 
> 

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