Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-14 Thread Michal Suchánek
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 12:23:13PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 07/01/2020 10.39, 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

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-13 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:13:27AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 13:34 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > On 07/01/2020 20:39, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 12:55 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > > Petitboot kernel+initramdisk almost

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-13 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 13/01/2020 20:13, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 13:34 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> On 07/01/2020 20:39, Andrea Bolognani wrote: >>> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 12:55 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: Petitboot kernel+initramdisk almost replaces SLOF + GRUB. >>> >>>

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-13 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 13:34 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 07/01/2020 20:39, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 12:55 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > Petitboot kernel+initramdisk almost replaces SLOF + GRUB. > > > > Is this necessarily a good thing? > > The bare

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-07 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
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? >> >>

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-07 Thread Thomas Huth
On 07/01/2020 10.39, 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? >> >>

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-07 Thread Andrea Bolognani
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 +

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-06 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 07/01/2020 01:15, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: > Hey, > > On 1/5/20 8:38 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> Another version is coming, I'll start putting fewer people in the cc: >> list, watch qemu-...@nongnu.org for further updates if interested. >> Thanks, > > > Question: does

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-06 Thread Daniel Henrique Barboza
Hey, On 1/5/20 8:38 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: Another version is coming, I'll start putting fewer people in the cc: list, watch qemu-...@nongnu.org for further updates if interested. Thanks, Question: does Petitboot already replaces SLOF in every possible scenario for all the spapr

Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-05 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
Another version is coming, I'll start putting fewer people in the cc: list, watch qemu-...@nongnu.org for further updates if interested. Thanks, On 03/01/2020 18:44, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > The Petitboot bootloader is way more advanced than SLOF is ever going to > be as Petitboot comes

[RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

2020-01-02 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
The Petitboot bootloader is way more advanced than SLOF is ever going to be as Petitboot comes with the full-featured Linux kernel with all the drivers, and initramdisk with quite user friendly interface. The problem with ditching SLOF is that an unmodified pseries kernel can either start via: 1.