From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: glommer@redhat.com, seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:17:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091215211715.GF26712@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B27E518.7060300@codemonkey.ws>
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:35:52PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> -kernel didn't work on a quick test.
>
> Thinking about how to fix this, we have two options.
Hmm, can you pls explain why it stops working?
> The first would be
> to use the support in SeaBIOS for static roms but that would limit us to
> two user supplied option roms (including kernel/multiboot/extboot). We
> could extend this to more than two roms but I think that's generally
> ugly.
>
> Alternatively, we could introduce a special rom-only PCI device.
> Besides getting support for a much greater number of option roms, it
> also gives us a much nicer way to integrate multiboot/linux boot support
> via qdev (instead of the ugly machine hack we have now).
>
> We could make them multifunction devices so that we don't unnecessarily
> burn PCI slots to support roms.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>> cheers,
>> Gerd
Will be a problem for non-PCI systems?
--
MST
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2009-12-14 10:59 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug? Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 11:55 ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-14 13:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 13:35 ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-14 14:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 17:00 ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-14 14:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 14:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 14:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 14:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 16:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 19:12 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-14 19:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 19:38 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-14 19:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 19:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 19:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 20:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 20:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-14 20:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 20:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 20:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 20:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-15 2:37 ` Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?) Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 3:55 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-15 4:34 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-15 13:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 14:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 14:33 ` [SeaBIOS] " Avi Kivity
2009-12-15 17:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 23:54 ` Kevin OConnor
2009-12-16 0:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-16 4:20 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-15 9:17 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-15 10:14 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-15 19:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-16 12:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-16 12:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-16 13:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-16 13:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-16 14:12 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-16 14:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-16 14:17 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-16 14:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-16 14:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-16 14:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-16 14:28 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-16 14:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-15 19:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 21:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-12-15 21:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-16 0:33 ` Chris Wright
2009-12-16 1:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-16 4:57 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-16 12:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-16 16:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-17 1:24 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-17 9:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-17 9:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-17 10:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-16 14:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-16 14:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-16 14:50 ` [SeaBIOS] " Gleb Natapov
2009-12-15 13:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 21:24 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-15 21:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 21:38 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-15 22:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-17 21:14 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-16 4:29 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-16 12:01 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-15 19:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 21:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-15 21:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 21:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-15 21:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 21:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-15 22:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 22:51 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-16 14:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-17 20:33 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-15 10:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-15 19:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-15 19:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug? Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 20:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-14 21:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 21:36 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-14 21:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 22:14 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-15 4:23 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-14 20:47 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-14 20:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 20:38 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-14 19:51 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-14 14:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 17:03 ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-14 17:01 ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-14 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-14 14:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-14 14:54 ` Anthony Liguori
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