Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 April 2013 10:07, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> On ARM, look at highbank. Because we're not running we're lacking
> a monitor mode blob that provides sys calls for flushing caches.
> Thus today the highbank machine doesn't boot anymore with Linux.
> If we ran firmware like the real board, that would provide for the
> sys call.

We also flat out don't implement enough monitor mode to allow
a hypothetical firmware blob to work.

-- PMM