Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 00/77] ppc: Add "native" POWER8 platform

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 11/30/2015 09:09 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 19:15 +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> The pnor file is compiled from github. The patch is below (without the dirty
>> cut and paste I did in loader.c). The offset for the PAYLOAD and BOOTKERNEL
>> partitions are hard coded but I guess we don't need to read the flash 
>> partition
>> table in qemu, not yet.
> 
> In practice we should read the partition tables, I don't like hard
> coded offsets... But we should probably create a proper "flash driver"
> that does a bunch of this, and also adds the BMC style flash interface
> so OPAL can write to nvram.

yes that would be better but I don't measure what it takes to implement 
the LPC/AHB bridge to access the PNOR.

C.