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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] x86 Multiboot support (extended)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:57:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D762CA.4030603@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080311234419.GA32706@volta.aurel32.net>

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:31:09PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>   
> Is it really necessary to have *that much* assembly code within hw/pc.c?
>
> I would rather see multiboot support as a small image generated from
> C and/or assembly code, loaded either with -hda or with a new option
> having the same effect. This code could read the NVRAM to get the
> variables it needs.
>   

Better yet to package it as an option ROM and eliminate all the boot 
sector hacks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30 18:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] x86 Multiboot support (extended) Alexander Graf
2008-01-31  9:58 ` Kevin Wolf
2008-01-31 10:19   ` Alexander Graf
2008-01-31 17:31   ` Alexander Graf
2008-02-01  8:41     ` Kevin Wolf
2008-03-11 23:44     ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-12  4:57       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-03-12  8:24         ` Alexander Graf
2008-03-12 14:37           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-12  7:32       ` Alexander Graf

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