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

Anthony Liguori
2010-02-19T18:10:47Z

On 02/19/2010 11:03 AM, 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.
>
> Kevin, Anthony, and all others: what is now the merge road map for the
> bootable scsi/virtio feature?
>

Stefan posted a virtio-blk driver for gPXE. I like this approach
because it's generally useful (gPXE can be used with any BIOS).

For the LSI SCSI adapter, I'm not really sure the best way forward.
Honestly, it's so broken currently, I'm not sure booting really matters.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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