Re: [Qemu-riscv] [Qemu-devel] [RFC v1 0/5] RISC-V: Add firmware loading support and default

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 21:43 +0300, David Abdurachmanov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:18 PM Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:16 AM Andrea Bolognani <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > but one question comes to mind: once this is in, we will probably
> > > want to have OpenSBI packaged separately in distributions, the same
> > > way it already happens for SeaBIOS, SLOF and edk2-based firmwares.
> > > 
> > > Will using either of the formats prevent that from happening?
> > 
> > Both options allow this.
> > 
> > OE-Core already packages OpenSBI by default, Fedora and Debian are
> > moving to OpenSBI for RISC-V targets as well.
> >
> > Any distro that supports the RISC-V toolchain (which is all
> > upstreamed) can build OpenSBI.
> 
> Fedora uses OpenSBI for the last 2 or 3 months now. I don't plan to update
> BBL builds. OpenSBI packages in Fedora/RISCV isn't finalized, but it does
> ship *.elf and *.bin files.

Sounds good to me, thanks for confirming!

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization