Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH qemu] spapr: Stop providing RTAS blob

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 18/07/2019 17:20, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 16/07/2019 07.35, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > SLOF implements one itself so let's remove it from QEMU. It is one less
> > image and simpler setup as the RTAS blob never stays in its initial place
> > anyway as the guest OS always decides where to put it.
> >
> > This totally depends on https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1132440/ ,
> > hence RFC.
>
> Patch looks basically fine for me, but I wonder whether we should wait
> for one or two releases until we really remove it from QEMU, so that it
> is still possible to test the latest QEMU with older SLOF releases for a
> while (which is sometimes useful when hunting bugs). Or should this
> maybe even go through the official deprecation process (i.e. with an
> entry in qemu-deprecated.texi)?

I worry more about slof being distributed as a separate package in RHEL, 
easy enough to get qemu/slof out of sync.


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Alexey