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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pc-bios/linux_boot.bin and other pc-bios stuff
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE4598E.5040303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE1DA17.5090802@msgid.tls.msk.ru>

On 10/23/2009 06:30 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> ..is this file needed in qemu-kvm-0.11.0?
>
> It looks like it's not used in the code,
> can't be rebuilt, and is a left-over from
> ancient times.  Can it be removed?
>

There's no linux_boot.bin in the qemu-kvm stable-0.11 source tree.

> Also while at it, why can't kvm ship with
> pxe-virtio.bin virtio boot rom from git
> version of etherboot (rom-o-matic.org
> produces it just fine)?

Questions of the form "why hasn't $event happened" are generally 
unanswerable.

>
> And for other files in pc-bios directory,
> like READMEs and patches - how up-to-date
> they are?

This form of question also has a default answer, outdated.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-25 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 16:30 pc-bios/linux_boot.bin and other pc-bios stuff Michael Tokarev
2009-10-25 13:58 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-11-02 15:54   ` Anthony Liguori

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