From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: pc-bios/linux_boot.bin and other pc-bios stuff Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4AE4598E.5040303@redhat.com> References: <4AE1DA17.5090802@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM list To: Michael Tokarev Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:7329 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753548AbZJYN65 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:58:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AE1DA17.5090802@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 This form of question also has a default answer, outdated.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