From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: extboot.bin required in git Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:20:54 +0300 Message-ID: <4A9E8D56.3080102@redhat.com> References: <4A9E828A.9040707@siemens.com> <4A9E835C.10100@redhat.com> <4A9E867A.3060306@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm-devel To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:5729 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751974AbZIBPU4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:20:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A9E867A.3060306@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function