On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:09:30 +0200 Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
On 04/19/18 02:09, David Gibson wrote: [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]
Thank you -- I will replace SLOF with "openfirmware".
This also implies I shouldn't add "openbios" separately, which was suggested earlier by Gerd -- according to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBIOS>, OpenBIOS is another implementation of OFW.
Right. Although I think OpenBIOS and SLOF support a disjoint set of machines. Openhackware which is (was?) used on some machines is yet another (very partial) openfirmware implementation.
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Right, this is about interfaces, so I'll keep "uboot".
Ok. More specifically I guess this is about firmware <-> guest OS, and firmware <-> interactive user interfaces. Firmware <-> qemu interfaces (fw_cfg, device tree) are a different question. -- David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com> Principal Software Engineer, Virtualization, Red Hat