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From: "Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer@startmail.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "Joel Stanley" <joel@jms.id.au>,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: qemu/powernv: coreboot support?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:17:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191022021754.eliz2epsusf4qbdl@proprietary-killer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191022014032.GH6439@umbus.fritz.box>

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:40:32PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 07:32:09PM -0500, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> > On that note, is qemu-ppc64 currently capable of running LE
> > firmware?
> 
> Well.. "qemu-ppc64" as such isn't capable of running either LE or
> firmware, since that's the Linux userspace emulator.
> qemu-system-ppc64 *is* capable of running both LE and BE firmwares though.
> 
Ah. yeah, that's what I meant. Good to know.
> Your firmware will, however, need a tiny BE shim to switch the cpu
> into LE mode.
> 
Yeah, I figured as much, and was planning to have a shim available for
'real' hardware in the event a user wants to run coreboot in LE mode
after both work properly (though somewhere in the OpenPOWER spec it is
stated firmware must be BE).
> -- 
> David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
> david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
> 				| _way_ _around_!
> http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson




  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-22  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-18 17:28 qemu/powernv: coreboot support? Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-19 11:15 ` David Gibson
2019-10-19 12:28   ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-19 13:46 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-19 15:31   ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-19 15:53     ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-19 16:09       ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-20  6:28         ` David Gibson
2019-10-20  6:51           ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-20 16:32             ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-21  5:34             ` David Gibson
2019-10-21 12:46               ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-22  0:32                 ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-22  1:40                   ` David Gibson
2019-10-22  2:17                     ` Marty E. Plummer [this message]
2019-10-22  7:55                       ` David Gibson
2019-10-22  7:58                   ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-23 21:41                     ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-19 18:51       ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-19 19:23       ` Marty E. Plummer
2019-10-20 19:48         ` Peter Maydell
2019-10-21  9:51           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-10-20  6:26     ` David Gibson
2019-10-20  6:24   ` David Gibson

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