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b0fb8423 06/17/2011 03:58 am Alexander Graf

PPC: E500: Implement reboot controller

When Linux reboots an e500 VM, it writes to a magic register in the
"global-utilities" device indicated by the device tree. We were not
emulating that device so far, rendering the VM reboot-less.

This patch implements that device with only the reboot functionality...

39f41079 06/03/2011 02:34 pm Alexander Graf

s390x: update zipl rom

The zipl bootloader rom we have has seen some dramatic speedups upstream,
so let's update it to improve the experience when booting a guest image.

This binary is based on commit id 9a0842dd9823d529f721b418d554f17c72e009e3.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <>

36d8d02d 04/18/2011 08:46 pm Alex Williamson

PXE: Refresh all PXE ROMs from the ipxe submodule

Add script to make this easy to repeat later.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <>

5ee8ad71 04/18/2011 08:46 pm Alex Williamson

PXE: Use consistent naming for PXE ROMs

And add missing ROMs to tarbin build target.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <>

d818bfc5 04/01/2011 09:04 pm Aurelien Jarno

pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin: remove executable flag

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <>

a9f8ad8f 04/01/2011 07:34 pm David Gibson

Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

Currently, the emulated pSeries machine requires the use of the
-kernel parameter in order to explicitly load a guest kernel. This
means booting from the virtual disk, cdrom or network is not possible....

39ac8455 04/01/2011 07:34 pm David Gibson

Implement hcall based RTAS for pSeries machines

On pSeries machines, operating systems can instantiate "RTAS" (Run-Time
Abstraction Services), a runtime component of the firmware which implements
a number of low-level, infrequently used operations. On logical partitions...

59c9d9cf 03/22/2011 08:03 am Aurelien Jarno

pc-bios: update linuxboot.bin and multiboot.bin

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <>

75b9f690 03/22/2011 08:00 am Gleb Natapov

fix linuxboot.bin and multiboot.bin to not hijack int19

Currently linuxboot.bin and multiboot.bin option roms override int19
vector to intercept boot process. No sane option rom should do that.
Provide bev entry instead that will be called by BIOS if option rom...

8b06c62a 03/22/2011 12:41 am Anthony Liguori

seabios: update to latest git

- cc97564 Add config option to permit running option roms with bad checksums.
- 424f217 Add config option to disable MTRR initialization.
- fb2f10d Prep version for next release.
- f18b09b Update version to 0.6.2
- 20fcf9b lets pretend that RTC can be used to wakeup from S4...

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