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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: extboot.bin required in git
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:51:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9E867A.3060306@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9E835C.10100@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/02/2009 05:34 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Hi Marcelo,
>>
>> qemu-kvm's installation (0.11-rc as well as git head) is currently
>> broken /wrt extboot.bin. Please check some proper binary in as
>> pc-bios/extboot.bin.
>>    
> 
> It's built at runtime.  Why check in a binary?

First of all, it's a qemu policy (AFAIK): try to build the rom, use
shipped version if that doesn't work. And second, we (more precisely
qemu) does not seem to use the optionrom output for installation yet.
The latter is likely subject to change, but the former is expected to stay.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-02 14:34 extboot.bin required in git Jan Kiszka
2009-09-02 14:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-02 14:51   ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2009-09-02 15:20     ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-02 15:26       ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-02 15:31         ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-02 15:40           ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-02 16:17             ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-02 16:20               ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-02 15:40         ` Avi Kivity

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