Re: extboot.bin required in git

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

Well, people may expect qemu-kvm's source tree to build properly also
for non-kvm usage. But this is not that important for now.

> 
>> 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.

Ah, I see: some out-of-tree build bug. Will fix.

Jan

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