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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu-kvm: extboot: Keep variables in RAM
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:37:04 -0800
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
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On 02/19/2010 10:17 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>
>> Stefan posted a virtio-blk driver for gPXE.  I like this approach 
>> because it's generally useful (gPXE can be used with any BIOS).
> 
> Does it allow a unified boot device selection, one menu for them all, no
> more "boot=on" workarounds?
> 

Well, it hooks into BBS if the underlying BIOS supports it.  Without BBS
there is no ability to have a unified boot device selection.

	-hpa