Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

On 15.01.2012 16:53, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 02:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
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>> 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).

FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian qemu-kvm 1.0, because
of lack of boot support from scsi (and no alternative), and because
many people's scripts who used boot= broke.  I thought it is better
to let users to have a chance to perform a smoother transition than
to break their stuff.

Now, I've a question: what seabios implementation of extboot we're
talking about?  -option-rom which is impossible to select as a first
boot device?

Thanks,

/mjt