Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2012-01-15 13:53, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 02:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-01-15 13:49, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 01/15/2012 02:44 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> OK, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> As that repos is now the vgabios reference, nothing valuable can be lost
>>>> when we drop the kvm/ folder, right?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I guess so.
>>>
>>> What about extboot w/ -M pc-0.foo?  I guess we'll boot with a newer
>>> seabios in any case, but we probably will have boot order issues.  Maybe
>>> we should make boot=on talk to the boot order code.
>>
>> extboot is history since 2a06024dc1b1e27b1be0266379af397e61b4a9ad
>>
> 
> Yeah, but it isn't history for people running older qemu-kvm's.  We
> don't need extboot itself, but we do need to keep the boot option (as
> 2a06 does).  The question is do we need to preserve its meaning too
> (with the seabios implementation instead of extboot's).

Possibly. But that is unrelated to any of the historic bits in kvm/.

Jan


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