Now that we have implemented PAPR compatible NVRAM interfaces in qemu, this
updates the SLOF firmware to actually initialize and use the NVRAM as a
PAPR guest firmware is expected to do.
This SLOF update also includes an ugly but useful workaround for a bug in
the SLES11 installer which caused it to fail under KVM.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
- SLOF (Slimline Open Firmware) is a free IEEE 1275 Open Firmware
implementation for certain IBM POWER hardware. The sources are at
https://github.com/dgibson/SLOF, and the image currently in qemu is
- built from git tag qemu-slof-20120731.
+ built from git tag qemu-slof-20121018.
- sgabios (the Serial Graphics Adapter option ROM) provides a means for
legacy x86 software to communicate with an attached serial console as
-Subproject commit f21f7a3f46b557eb5923f899ce8b4401b3cc6d91
+Subproject commit 0ad10f26c94a86a0c9c3970e53f9a9f6a744055d