Re: [PATCH qemu v5] spapr: Kill SLOF

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 16:11 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 06:14:37PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > On 22/01/2020 17:32, David Gibson wrote:
> > > I'm not thinking of "grub" as a separate option - that would be the
> > > same as "vof".  Using vof + no -kernel we'd need to scan the disks in
> > > the same way SLOF does, and look for a boot partition, which will
> > > probably contain a GRUB image. 
> > 
> > I was hoping we can avoid that by allowing
> > "-kernel grub" and let grub do filesystems and MBR/GPT.
> 
> I don't want that to be the only way, because I want the GRUB
> installed by the OS installer to be the GRUB we use.

Agreed, the bootloader and the kernel should live inside the guest
image and not on the host's filesystem.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization