Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 06/14] powerpc/ppc64: add boot rom source

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 07:27:32AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 08.02.2016 19:53, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > Make a one line replacement for SLOF. This bootloader just
> > jumps to 0x400000, because we know the kernel will be there.
> > This commit allows rebuilding of the bootloader, as long
> > as the SLOF build_romfs tool is present, but since it would be
> > a pain to require that tool for ever build, we'll just commit
> > the binary rom image too with the next commit.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I haven't tested it yet, but I think this should also be doable without
> the build_romfs tool? Since QEMU does not care about the header that
> this tool creates, it should not matter whether there is some valid data
> in the first 256 or simply zeros. So simply linking with
> "-Wl,--oformat,binary -Ttext=0x100" or so should do the job, also?

That would be much nicer indeed! I can try it when preparing v3.

Thanks,
drew
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