From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Pauline Middelink <middelink@polyware.nl>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm-85 won't boot guests with virtio block device
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F24F75.6060609@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F24F49.3000305@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> Pauline,
>>
>> Good catch.
>>
>> Anthony, what is the reason for extboot not being upstream?
>>
>
> Paul Brook nacked it.
> He didn't like that it was so x86 specific. I think a better approach
> that would be mergable is something based on the FW config interface
> with the driver code living as a patch to the Bochs BIOS.
By hooking the int13 code in the Bochs BIOS directly, we'd probably
avoid 99% of the bugs we've encountered with extboot implementing int13
functionality too so I think it's a good idea.
--
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 17:18 kvm-85 won't boot guests with virtio block device Pauline Middelink
2009-04-24 23:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-04-24 23:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-24 23:47 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-04-26 10:27 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-25 20:13 ` Gerd v. Egidy
2009-04-26 10:25 ` Avi Kivity
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-27 7:57 Pauline Middelink
2009-04-27 9:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-23 11:00 Darius Drozdowski
2009-04-23 12:05 ` Gerd v. Egidy
2009-04-23 12:40 ` Bernhard Held
2009-04-23 12:49 ` Alexey Eremenko
2009-04-23 13:27 ` Gerd v. Egidy
2009-04-23 13:49 ` Bernhard Held
2009-04-23 14:01 ` Gerd v. Egidy
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