Re: [PATCH qemu v7 0/5] spapr: Kill SLOF

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/03/20 02:17, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>>> Okay, that's great!  I'll take a look next week.
> 
> Any luck with this?

Not really, perhaps today.  But I don't object to already including a
minimal version of this in 5.0 as long as:

- it doesn't implement read and write

- it is called x-vof instead of vof.

I know it's kinda useless (though perhaps you can already boot with
-kernel?) but I don't want to make maintenance of the series too hard.

Paolo

>>>>> Just to make sure I understood - you'll take a look on this series, you
>>>>> do not expect other patches on top, right?
>>>>
>>>> No, thanks.
>>>>
>>>>> ps. while I have your attention, what was the practical reason for
>>>>> including capstone to QEMU? Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Newer versions of the binutils disassembler are GPLv3.
>>>
>>> but why does qemu need this kind of disassembler at all? tcg does
>>> execution and it is not replaced by capstone.
>>
>> For debugging (e.g. "x/5i $pc" from the monitor, or "-d in_asm" if
>> you're using TCG).
> 
> Ah, this is the only use, ok. We could just install it from packages
> then or (for PPC) grab from Linux's ppc xmon but ok :) Thanks,