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

Jan Kiszka
2010-02-22T10:00:18Z

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
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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