On 29/11/2017 18:14, Maran Wilson wrote: > That is one option. I guess this gets into a discussion about the QEMU > side of the upcoming patches that would follow ... > > I'm currently just initializing the CPU state in QEMU for testing since > there is such minimal (non Linux specific) setup that is required by the > ABI. And (borrowing from the Intel clear container patches) that VM > setup is only performed when user selects the "nofw" option with the q35 > model. But yeah, if folks think it important to move all such machine > state initialization out of QEMU and into an option ROM, I can look into > coding it up that way for the QEMU patches. Yes, please do an option ROM. I'll take care of porting it to qboot. Thanks, Paolo