On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:04:27PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 26 August 2014 11:08 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 07:15:16PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
> >> Extend rtas-blob to accommodate error log. Error log
> >> structure is saved in rtas space upon a machine check
> >> exception.
> > 
> > Hrm.  Putting the reserved space into the actual firmware image file
> > seems really clumsy to me.  Wouldn't it be better to reserve the space
> > directly from qemu, then just paste the 20 bytes of code into that
> > area.
> 
> Hmm. It is possible to it from qemu. In that case we can get rid of
> spapr-rtas.S. Let me think about that.

I think getting rid of spapr-rtas.S is probably a good idea.  It
complicates building things for the sake of 5 instructions.
Especially since in your new code you construct the vector
instructions directly, it makes sense to do the same thing for
spapr-rtas.

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