How To Install SLOF on Fedora 34

SLOF is Slimline Open Firmware

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install SLOF on Fedora 34.

What is `SLOF`

Slimline Open Firmware (SLOF) is initialization and boot source code based on the IEEE-1275 (Open Firmware) standard, developed by engineers of the IBM Corporation. The SLOF source code provides illustrates what’s needed to initialize and boot Linux or a hypervisor on the industry Open Firmware boot standard. Note that you normally wouldn’t need to install this package separately. It is a dependency of qemu-system-ppc64.

We can use yum or dnf to install SLOF on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install SLOF.

Install SLOF on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install SLOF using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install SLOF

Install SLOF on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install SLOF using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install SLOF

How To Uninstall SLOF on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the SLOF package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove SLOF

SLOF Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/SLOF
/usr/share/doc/SLOF/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/SLOF/README
/usr/share/qemu
/usr/share/qemu/slof.bin

References

SLOF website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install SLOF on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.