From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:45:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB49ED6.5000202@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101012174121.GF5218@redhat.com>
On 10/12/2010 10:41 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:35:51AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On real hardware it is shared between BIOS and the OS, actually.
>>
> Guest OS can write in qemu CMOS too. But what is it useful for? Most of
> its content is not standard AFAIK.
>
This is true to some extent -- there is some standard content, and some
further can be described via ACPI tables. However, my point was mostly
that it is an existing model for nonvolatile storage which also works on
hardware (and is vastly simpler albeit smaller in size than ESCD).
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 10:18 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 10:32 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-11 10:43 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 11:01 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-11 12:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-10-11 12:16 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 19:48 ` [SeaBIOS] " Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 19:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 20:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 20:36 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 20:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 21:14 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-11 21:41 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2010-10-11 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-12 8:01 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-12 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-12 16:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-12 17:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-12 17:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-12 17:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-10-12 19:06 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-13 19:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-13 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-13 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-11 19:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 20:02 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 20:18 ` [SeaBIOS] " H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-11 11:16 ` Bernhard Kohl
2010-10-11 12:08 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 23:33 ` [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2010-10-11 12:48 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 14:29 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 15:52 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 16:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 17:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 17:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 23:16 ` [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2010-10-12 8:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 15:09 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] " Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 15:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-11 15:42 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 15:52 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-12 0:08 ` Kevin O'Connor
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