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From: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, libvir-list@redhat.com,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	Gary Ching-Pang Lin <glin@suse.com>,
	Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu RFC v2] qapi: add "firmware.json"
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:03:01 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180420110301.1734899d@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d032dfe2-bfab-5a12-c867-a5229f303f5f@redhat.com>

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:09:30 +0200
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/19/18 02:09, David Gibson wrote:
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> Thank you -- I will replace SLOF with "openfirmware".
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> This also implies I shouldn't add "openbios" separately, which was
> suggested earlier by Gerd -- according to
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBIOS>, OpenBIOS is another
> implementation of OFW.

Right.  Although I think OpenBIOS and SLOF support a disjoint set of
machines.  Openhackware which is (was?) used on some machines is yet
another (very partial) openfirmware implementation.

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> Right, this is about interfaces, so I'll keep "uboot".

Ok.  More specifically I guess this is about firmware <-> guest OS, and
firmware <-> interactive user interfaces.  Firmware <-> qemu interfaces
(fw_cfg, device tree) are a different question.

-- 
David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
Principal Software Engineer, Virtualization, Red Hat

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-20  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17 22:40 [Qemu-devel] [qemu RFC v2] qapi: add "firmware.json" Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18  6:02 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-18  8:32   ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18  9:04     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-18 11:48       ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 11:57         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-18 12:30           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-18 12:32             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-18 12:57               ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 12:23         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-18 12:56           ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 13:06             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-18 13:30               ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 13:53                 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-18 14:03                   ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 14:06                     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-18 14:45                       ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-19  0:09     ` David Gibson
2018-04-19  8:09       ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-20  1:03         ` David Gibson [this message]
2018-04-20  8:47           ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-20  9:01             ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-19  8:45   ` Thomas Huth
2018-04-18  8:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2018-04-18 11:35   ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-19  7:48     ` Markus Armbruster
2018-04-19  7:56       ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-19  8:39         ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-19  9:12           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-20  8:11             ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-20  9:34               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-20  9:46                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-20  9:50                   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-20 10:41                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-20 15:45                       ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-20 15:39                 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-23  0:10                 ` David Gibson
2018-04-23  9:39                   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-20 12:53           ` Markus Armbruster
2018-04-20 16:04             ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-20 16:37               ` Markus Armbruster
2018-04-20 23:25                 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18  9:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-18 11:52   ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 12:03     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-18 12:36       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-04-18 12:40       ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 15:17         ` Eric Blake
2018-04-18 15:27           ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-18 15:28             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-18 15:30             ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-04-19  8:57 ` Thomas Huth

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