On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:03 PM Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@sifive.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:22:47 PDT (-0700), alistai...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > As a test of the waters, how would the QEMU community feel about > > including the RISC-V OpenSBI project as a ROM submodule? > > > > The idea would be to have OpenSBI (similar to ATF for ARM and a BIOS > > for x86) included by default to simplify the QEMU RISC-V boot process > > for users. This would remove the requirement for users/developers to > > build a RISC-V firmware. The goal here is to allow people to just > > download and run their kernel as easily as they currently do for x86. > > > > We would make sure that it can be disabled! That is users/developers > > can use their own (or none) if they want to. The idea here is just to > > simplify the boot process, not lock anyone out. > > I like it. My only question is about the mechanics of doing so: are we just > going to assume there's a cross compiler in PATH? I guess that's less of a > usability headache than needing a complier and a firmware.
It looks like we will include a binary in the QEMU source and also provide the option for users to compile it themselves. Alistair
