[OpenPower-Firmware] Firmware Sim help

[Marty E. Plummer]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 03:56:37PM -0500, Daniel M Crowell wrote:
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> Wish I could help, Simics is all we use internally for Hostboot work.  What
> is the "power9 functional simulator" you are referring to?
https://openpowerfoundation.org/introducing-ibm-power9-functional-simulator/
^ apparently aka mambo. Skiboot tree has tools for it.
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> Dan Crowell
> Senior Software Engineer - Power Systems Enablement Firmware
> IBM Rochester: t/l 553-2987
> dcrowell at us.ibm.com
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> From:	"Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer at startmail.com>
> To:	openpower-firmware at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc:	clg at kaod.org
> Date:	10/03/2020 06:34 AM
> Subject:	[EXTERNAL] [OpenPower-Firmware] Firmware Sim help
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>             +dcrowell=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
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> Greetings. As I've mailed before, I'm working on coreboot for the power9
> talos line of systems. As far as I can see, there are three major options
> for p9 simulation; simics, the power9 functional simulator, and the qemu
> powernv stuff being worked on by Cedric LeGoater. The lattermost option
> doesn't really model the hardware down to that level (hostboot's level)
> and is primarily there to do skiboot testing. Not sure about the
> functional simulator, and simics seems to be not generally available for
> Average Joe programmer.
> 
> Was hoping someone here could provide information on the subject or
> perhaps point me in some other direction, or otherwise offer guidance on
> the subject.
> 
> Regards,
> Marty
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