From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:55:12 +0100 Message-ID: <4F12CCB0.7090500@web.de> References: <4F12B500.90705@web.de> <4F12C79E.8060902@redhat.com> <4F12C907.3070702@web.de> <4F12C9BF.7040406@redhat.com> <4F12CA17.9010604@web.de> <4F12CB51.4040502@redhat.com> <4F12CB9C.9010006@web.de> <4F12CC59.8090808@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA0F76D65D3D6719ED389A4F6" Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate04.web.de ([217.72.192.242]:52466 "EHLO fmmailgate04.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751419Ab2AOMzO (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:55:14 -0500 Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate04.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B8A70E8E72 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:55:12 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <4F12CC59.8090808@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA0F76D65D3D6719ED389A4F6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. Ma= ybe >>> we should make boot=3Don talk to the boot order code. >> >> extboot is history since 2a06024dc1b1e27b1be0266379af397e61b4a9ad >> >=20 > 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 --------------enigA0F76D65D3D6719ED389A4F6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8SzLAACgkQitSsb3rl5xSN8gCglYF15UK28xTFrOJU7KrqhBjH FPkAnipjUXN+dPzIWhCmuNg9DCIs4THV =AooT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA0F76D65D3D6719ED389A4F6--