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

Jan Kiszka
2010-02-19T17:45:01Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.)

If there is standard for this, even better. On first glance, it doesn't
look like a specification monster. Still some work to do. Or are there
already activities in this direction?

If not let us fix the issue ad-hoc until we have full BBS.

Jan

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