Re: QEMU-KVM offers OPAL firmware interface? OpenBSD guest support?

David Gibson <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:56:22 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.emulators.qemu,gmane.os.openbsd.ppc
Message-ID	<YS38xhiy3MTYphxC@yekko>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 09:42:05AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 8/30/21 6:04 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 04:57:21PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:09:54AM +0000, Joseph wrote:
> >>> Hi Mark, Cédric, Greg at the openbsd-ppc ML,
> > 
> >>
> >> So.. if you want to run OpenBSD on POWER10 you will definitely need
> >> PAPR support, because POWER10 won't support bare metal OS access at
> >> all (it will be back to PowerVM always, like POWER5..POWER7).
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > what is stopping powernv support other than lack of firmware support?
> 
> Yes. that's the main issue. OpenPOWER firmware should be available
> for people to use on P10 but it won't have any support AFAIK. We just 
> published skiboot as part of it.

Thanks for your reply.  I realized that my reply misunderstood the
question, sorry about that.

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