If no image file for NVRAM is specified, the pseries machine currently
creates a 16K non-persistent NVRAM by default. This basically works, but
is not large enough for current firmware and guest kernels to create all
the NVRAM partitions they would like to. Increasing the default size to
64K addresses this and stops the guest generating error messages.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
The PAPR specification requires a certain amount of NVRAM, accessed via
RTAS, which we don't currently implement in qemu. This patch addresses
this deficiency, implementing the NVRAM as a VIO device, with some glue to
instantiate it automatically based on a machine option.
The machine option specifies a drive id, which is used to back the NVRAM,
making it persistent. If nothing is specified, the driver instead simply
allocates space for the NVRAM, which will not be persistent
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
