BIOS, Hypervisor, and OS detailed boot progress in Redfish

Brad Bishop bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com
Wed Jan 29 08:50:01 AEDT 2020


> I think our goal should be to provide a high level summary of the boot from
> the BIOS, to the Hypervisor, to the OS.
> 
> Something like this?
> Unknown -> MotherboardInit -> MemoryInit -> SecondaryProcInit ->
>        -> HypervisorStart -> HypervisorStandby -> OSStart -> OSRunning

I would suggest renaming the hypervisor steps with “system firmware” where system firmware is things like:

BIOS
UEFI
coreboot
petitboot
PowerVM

On our PowerVM systems the system firmware also happens to be the hypervisor but I don’t think that is typically the case elsewhere.


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