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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios i
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image |
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Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:01:32 +0200 |
Am 06.04.2013 um 01:00 schrieb Scott Wood <address@hidden>:
> On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
>> > particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what the
>> > hardware actually does and I thus won't accept random changes just
>> > because they happen to be in Leon3 code. There's nothing conceptually
>> > wrong with loading ELF code so I'm positive we will find a solution to
>> > accommodate all use cases in some way. :)
>> I think it makes a lot of sense to support loading -kernel as an ELF binary.
>> I don't think it's a good idea to allow -kernel without any BIOS. We do that
>> on the e500 machines and so far it's mostly hurt us.
>
> If by "mostly hurt us" you mean allowed things to work without having to do a
> bunch of hacking to create a paravirt U-Boot and/or implement a bunch of
> emulation that we don't really need otherwise.
I mean that we lack compatibility. The less we diverge from what users are used
to, the better usability becomes for users.
Just try to run *BSD on e500. Good luck ;)
Alex
>
> -Scott
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/03
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Artyom Tarasenko, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Artyom Tarasenko, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Andreas Färber, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Scott Wood, 2013/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image,
Alexander Graf <=
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Scott Wood, 2013/04/08
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Edgar E. Iglesias, 2013/04/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Edgar E. Iglesias, 2013/04/06
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Fabien Chouteau, 2013/04/04