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Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF
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Alexey Kardashevskiy |
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Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF |
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Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:34:18 +1100 |
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On 07/01/2020 20:39, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 12:55 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On 07/01/2020 01:15, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>>> Question: does Petitboot already replaces SLOF in every possible
>>> scenario for all
>>> the spapr machine features?
>>
>> Petitboot kernel+initramdisk almost replaces SLOF + GRUB.
>
> Is this necessarily a good thing?
The bare metal host and the powernv machine in QEMU do not use grub,
they use petitboot which parses all grub configs and supports quite a lot.
Using Linux for a boot loader is not powerpc-only thing really, some
folks do this too (forgot who, just heard this at the KVM forum).
> Personally I quite like the fact
> that I can use the same bootloader across x86, ppc64 and aarch64.
I am not suggesting removing SLOF soon, and I'll probably add support
for "disk-label" later and this may be just enough for grub to boot from
a disk.
--
Alexey