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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu-kvm: extboot: Keep variables in RAM
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:24:25 -0800
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
> Actually, I'm still in favor of proper (Sea)BIOS support for virtio and
> scsi, either via the paravirt port 0x405 and its qemu backend or via
> minimalistic support of the hardware directly in the BIOS. That would
> free us from all those hooking and unhooking dances at least.
> 

The *proper* thing is to support BBS in SeaBIOS - that way your device 
drivers just hook in through the standard BEV/BCV mechanism (which 
should be used by *all* the device drivers, including the internal ones.)

	-hpa