From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu-kvm: extboot: Keep variables in RAM Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:10:33 -0600 Message-ID: <4B7ED419.7080709@codemonkey.ws> References: <4B7D6725.1090202@siemens.com> <4B7DA2C4.9040207@codemonkey.ws> <4B7DC5A5.5020500@linux.intel.com> <4B7E628E.2050107@siemens.com> <4B7EC149.5080603@linux.intel.com> <4B7EC46C.4090909@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Kevin O'Connor , Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm , Stefan Hajnoczi To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f228.google.com ([209.85.219.228]:49991 "EHLO mail-ew0-f228.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752126Ab0BSSKr (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:10:47 -0500 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so417096ewy.28 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:10:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B7EC46C.4090909@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > Jan > >