From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOQTf-0007st-Gn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:49:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOQTa-0001BZ-J5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:49:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOQTa-0001BG-E2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:49:38 -0500 Message-ID: <1453902575.14828.23.camel@redhat.com> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:49:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: <56A8C0BD.4080406@ipxe.org> References: <59b02541da838ce9a0246178deb3c377109589bb.1447780013.git.crobinso@redhat.com> <1453818064.24277.29.camel@redhat.com> <56A8C0BD.4080406@ipxe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ipxe-devel] [PATCH ipxe] build: Enable IPv6 for qemu List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Brown Cc: ipxe-devel@ipxe.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Cole Robinson Hi, > We already have the named config mechanism. I wonder if building a BIOS= =20 > option ROM for a real NIC is sufficiently specialised that it would make= =20 > sense to have a CONFIG=3Drom or CONFIG=3Dminimal named configuration. Maybe name the configs "rom64k" or "rom128k", to make clear they are stripped down to keep the size below a certain limit? cheers, Gerd