From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: extboot.bin required in git Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:51:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4A9E867A.3060306@siemens.com> References: <4A9E828A.9040707@siemens.com> <4A9E835C.10100@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:22244 "EHLO david.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbZIBOvu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:51:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A9E835C.10100@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/02/2009 05:34 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Hi Marcelo, >> >> qemu-kvm's installation (0.11-rc as well as git head) is currently >> broken /wrt extboot.bin. Please check some proper binary in as >> pc-bios/extboot.bin. >> > > It's built at runtime. Why check in a binary? First of all, it's a qemu policy (AFAIK): try to build the rom, use shipped version if that doesn't work. And second, we (more precisely qemu) does not seem to use the optionrom output for installation yet. The latter is likely subject to change, but the former is expected to stay. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux