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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 12/16] Add bootindex parameter to
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:53:57 +0200
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:29:50PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > If bootindex is specified on command line a string that describes device
> > in firmware readable way is added into sorted list. Later this list will
> > be passed into firmware to control boot order.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
> 
> Out of curiosity: what about qdev "scsi-generic"?  Can't we boot from
> that?
What device exactly scsi-generic supports? scsi-disk has call to
add_boot_device_path() though we cannot boot from it without extboot
now.

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			Gleb.