Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu-kvm: extboot: Keep variables in RAM

Jan Kiszka
2010-02-22T10:04:20Z

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 02/18/2010 06:13 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Instead of saving the old INT 0x13 and 0x19 handlers in ROM which fails
>>> under QEMU as it enforces protection, keep them in spare vectors of the
>>> interrupt table, namely INT 0x80 and 0x81.
>>>
>>>
>> Applied both, thanks.
>>
>>> Don't forget to update extboot.bin after merging both patches.
>>>
>> We don't carry a precompiled binary (well, we have
>> qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin, but that's bogus and I've removed it).
>
> You do:
> qemu-kvm/pc-bios/optionrom/extboot.bin

That one doesn't exist in git in fact.

> qemu-kvm/qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin (what is that for?)
>
> And as I had to copy the built extboot.bin around to let it be
> recognized when starting qemu-kvm from an out-of-tree build directory, I
> guess that concept needs some cleanup/fixing.
>

Jan

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