From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Extboot Option ROM rewritten in C - v3
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:31:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4808A29E.50903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48089FCC.6030006@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> The thinking is to eliminate the need to hijack the boot sector when
> using the -kernel option. However, the linux boot stuff in extboot has
> been broken since hpa rewrote the boot code. It can be removed for now
> and I'll eventually revisit it.
>
It probably makes more sense to have a different boot ROM for that. I
thought this was extboot, but apparently not. I probably can throw
something together.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-18 13:31 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
2008-04-18 12:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-18 13:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 13:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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