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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] ne2k_isa: add property for option rom loading.
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:21:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACC95D3.6070305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ACC92C8.8060700@codemonkey.ws>

On 10/07/09 15:08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> + if (s->pxe) {
>> + if (rom_add_option("pxe-ne2k_isa.bin") != 0) {
>> + qemu_error("warning: loading rom pxe-ne2k_isa.bin failed\n");
>> + s->pxe = 0;
>> + }
>> + }
>> +
>
> Maybe we should make the filename a property instead of adding a pxe
> option?

No.  The user should not need to know the file name of the option rom 
just to enable pxe booting for the nic.

When making the filename configurable it should be a separate property 
like "rom-name" or simliar.  I would suggest to NOT implement it unless 
users actually ask for it ;)

cheers,
   Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 12:36 [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH v2 0/5] qdev-ify network cards Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] net: macaddr tweaks Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 13:05   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 13:14     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 13:23       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 2/5] qdev: mac addr property fixups Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] ne2k: work without vlan Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 13:06   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 13:15     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 4/5] ne2k_isa: qdev-ify Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 13:50   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-07 14:07     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] ne2k_isa: add property for option rom loading Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 13:08   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 13:21     ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-10-07 13:28       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 14:00         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 14:17           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 14:27             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-07 18:34               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-12 10:13                 ` Gerd Hoffmann

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