Re: VW ELF loader

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 13/02/20 02:43, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> Ok. So, I have made a small firmware which does OF CI, loads GRUB and
> instantiates RTAS:
> https://github.com/aik/of1275
> Quite raw but gives the idea.
> 
> It does not contain drivers and still relies on QEMU to hook an OF path
> to a backend. Is this a showstopper and without drivers it is no go? Thanks,

Yes, it's really the drivers.  Something like netboot wouldn't work for
example.

I don't have a problem with relying on QEMU for opening and closing OF
paths, but I really believe that read/write on ihandles should be done
within the firmware and not QEMU.

Paolo