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

H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-19T17:24:28Z

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