From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: "J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:38:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071004113835.GR16772@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191467515.31950.41.camel@rapid>
J. Mayer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a proposal to allow the user to select a BIOS file name on the
> command line. The goal is mainly to ease debug, for example when I want
> to try to run a firmware comming from a real machine instead of the
> default one.
> The only change is to add a -bios <filename> option, use the given file
> if any or use the default if none were given.
> Maybe the options would be better named as -biosfile.... Or it maybe a
> good idea to give a full path, not to concatenate the given name with
> the bios_dir prefix...
> Some may find this option is not so useful, as one can specify a
> directory to find the target BIOS. But I feel more confortable keeping
> all BIOS images together at the same place.
I welcome this, especially since the various mips machine emulations
may have several alternative BIOS implementations soon.
Thiemo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 3:11 [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option J. Mayer
2007-10-04 11:38 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2007-10-05 12:36 ` J. Mayer
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