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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...
821303f5 04/01/2011 07:34 pm David Gibson

Implement assorted pSeries hcalls and RTAS methods

This patch adds several small utility hypercalls and RTAS methods to
the pSeries platform emulation. Specifically:

  • 'display-character' rtas call

This just prints a character to the console, it's occasionally used...