Re: [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Kill SLOF

[Michal Suchánek]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 12:23:13PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 07/01/2020 10.39, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 12:55 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >> On 07/01/2020 01:15, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> >>> Question: does Petitboot already replaces SLOF in every possible
> >>> scenario for all
> >>> the spapr machine features?
> >>
> >> Petitboot kernel+initramdisk almost replaces SLOF + GRUB.
> > 
> > Is this necessarily a good thing? Personally I quite like the fact
> > that I can use the same bootloader across x86, ppc64 and aarch64.
> 
> AFAIK petitboot can use the grub config files ... and it is already used
> on bare metal POWER8 and POWER9 systems, so it should not be such a big
> change to use it for POWER KVM guests, too?

Except it is not really pSeries then anymore.

Thanks

Michal