[OpenPower-Firmware] Firmware Sim help

[Marty E. Plummer]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:24:06AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yeah, I see that, but unless I'm mistaken it still tries to grab the
skiboot partition, even if I set the rom size to 16mb.
> C.