Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 27/02/2020 17:35, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 27/02/20 00:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
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>> On 26/02/2020 22:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 26/02/20 00:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
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>>>> On 21/02/2020 19:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>> On 21/02/20 01:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>>> I am not quite sure I understood the request.  Write my own small
>>>>>> firmware and replace GRUB with it? The firmware from 5/5 reads first 2
>>>>>> sectors and the entire PReP, I could add there stuff if that helps (I
>>>>>> have "work in progress" patch for the firmware with printk/etc borrowed
>>>>>> from SLOF).
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, that's great!  I'll take a look next week.


Any luck with this?

>>>>
>>>> Just to make sure I understood - you'll take a look on this series, you
>>>> do not expect other patches on top, right?
>>>
>>> No, thanks.
>>>
>>>> ps. while I have your attention, what was the practical reason for
>>>> including capstone to QEMU? Thanks,
>>>
>>> Newer versions of the binutils disassembler are GPLv3.
>>
>> but why does qemu need this kind of disassembler at all? tcg does
>> execution and it is not replaced by capstone.
> 
> For debugging (e.g. "x/5i $pc" from the monitor, or "-d in_asm" if
> you're using TCG).

Ah, this is the only use, ok. We could just install it from packages
then or (for PPC) grab from Linux's ppc xmon but ok :) Thanks,


-- 
Alexey