Re: extboot.bin required in git

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 09/02/2009 05:51 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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.

Right, but this is qemu-kvm, which doesn't have the same issues 
(building an i386 target on non-i386).  When extboot is merged into 
qemu.git, they can add the build-if-possible-otherwise-use-shipped thing.

> 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.
>    

We do, see 321b6ef91.

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