[OpenPower-Firmware] Firmware Sim help

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 10/6/20 10:19 AM, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:10:57AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> On 10/6/20 3:28 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, at 2:45 PM, Daniel M Crowell wrote:
>>>> Wish I could help, Simics is all we use internally for Hostboot work. 
>>>> What is the "power9 functional simulator" you are referring to?
>>>
>>> It's the name that Mambo goes under when downloading from the public parts of ibm.com
>>
>>
>> and it's a core simulator not a platform simulator, which means it
>> has no devices.
>>
> Yeah. I saw that skiboot had a testing thing for it, which worked with
> skiboot, but it seems I misunderstood some stuff about it. I've moved
> back to using the qemu-powernv stuff you're working on, patched again
> to avoid the 'bios too big' or 'no payload partition' errors.

I just increased the maximum size of fw to 16MB, in mainline and in the
powernv-5.2 branch.

C.