From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Cc: andre.przywara@arm.com, Sami.Mujawar@arm.com,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kvmtool v2 0/6] arm: Add support for firmware booting
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:10:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190122071024.GB10214@brain-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1547130046-14729-1-git-send-email-julien.thierry@arm.com>
Hi Julien,
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:20:40PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
> This series is based on the virtio reset series[1] posted earlier.
>
> We would like to be able to load firmwares like UEFI in kvmtool.
>
> The series contains:
> A way to load the firmware into RAM and an option to be able to create
> non-volatile memory zones and load data into them.
>
> Those non-volatile memory are presented throught the DT with a node:
>
> <flash>@<addr> {
> compatible = "kvmtool,flash";
> reg = < <addr> <size> >;
> label = <name>;
> }
>
> These are expected to be dealt with by specific kvmtool driver and not
> to be picked up by existing drivers (although technically it is just
> plain memory, mapped in the guest).
I've picked up the first four patches of this series, but I don't really
understand where you're going with the non-volatile memory part and whether
it's nvram, flash or something completely different. Given that Linux
doesn't support your binding, is this something that UEFI currently uses?
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-22 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-10 14:20 [PATCH kvmtool v2 0/6] arm: Add support for firmware booting Julien Thierry
2019-01-10 14:20 ` [PATCH kvmtool v2 1/6] rtc: Initialize the Register D for MC146818 RTC Julien Thierry
2019-01-10 14:20 ` [PATCH kvmtool v2 2/6] arm: Move firmware function Julien Thierry
2019-01-10 14:20 ` [PATCH kvmtool v2 3/6] builtin-run: Do not look for default kernel when firmware is provided Julien Thierry
2019-01-10 14:20 ` [PATCH kvmtool v2 4/6] arm: Support firmware loading Julien Thierry
2019-01-11 18:07 ` Andre Przywara
2019-01-14 9:50 ` Vladimir Murzin
2019-01-10 14:20 ` [PATCH kvmtool v2 5/6] kvm: Add arch specific reset Julien Thierry
2019-01-10 14:20 ` [PATCH kvmtool v2 6/6] arm: Support non-volatile memory Julien Thierry
2019-01-22 7:10 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2019-01-22 9:00 ` [PATCH kvmtool v2 0/6] arm: Add support for firmware booting Julien Thierry
2019-01-30 18:19 ` Will Deacon
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