From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: extboot.bin required in git Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:26:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4A9E8E98.6040201@siemens.com> References: <4A9E828A.9040707@siemens.com> <4A9E835C.10100@redhat.com> <4A9E867A.3060306@siemens.com> <4A9E8D56.3080102@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:24006 "EHLO goliath.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752481AbZIBP02 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:26:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A9E8D56.3080102@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux