From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Extboot Option ROM rewritten in C - v3
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:19:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48089FFC.1010005@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48089237.7070006@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Nguyen Anh Quynh wrote:
>>
>> Actually, this code is left from the original code of Anthony, and it
>> seems he took it from qemu 0.8 version.
>>
>> Anthony, may you explain why you want to hijact the linux boot process
>> here? If I understand correctly, we can just let the original int19
>> execute, and if linux boot is desired, it would work in normal way. So
>> why you want to do this?
>>
>
> I'm having exactly the *opposite* question... why does extboot have
> code to hook int 13h?
extboot is primarily intended to allow scsi boot or boot from a pv
disk. It hooks int13h to fake out disk access.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> -hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-18 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-17 1:30 Extboot Option ROM rewritten in C - v3 Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-17 5:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 10:57 ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-17 6:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 11:00 ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-18 12:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 13:19 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-04-18 12:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 13:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 13:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 13:56 ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-18 14:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 14:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 15:02 ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
2008-04-18 15:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-17 7:36 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-04-18 11:01 ` Nguyen Anh Quynh
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