From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:19:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4DA4A5AD.4080208@us.ibm.com> References: <1302629037-16084-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1302629037-16084-3-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <4DA48E93.90505@us.ibm.com> <1302631996.3021.28.camel@mothafucka.localdomain> <4DA49A80.3080701@us.ibm.com> <1302634073.3021.31.camel@mothafucka.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, avi@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, Gleb Natapov To: Glauber Costa Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:40142 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753885Ab1DLTTR (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:19:17 -0400 Received: from d03relay01.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.226]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p3CJ3X4A019236 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:03:33 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay01.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p3CJJCrC080286 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:19:12 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p3CJJBRe021631 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:19:11 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1302634073.3021.31.camel@mothafucka.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/12/2011 01:47 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > For sure, but if we had this discussion a while ago, > sgabios wouldn't exist back then, and now it does =p Actually, it's been around for ages :-) >>> And the fact that not all of them should >>> live in genroms persists. >> Actually genroms should disappear. We should make -option-rom work by >> using a dummy PCI device or something like that. > In a side track, I think sgabios is a pretty useful addition to qemu. > Would you consider including it together with the other roms ? Definitely. > This would definitely increase the out-of-the box experience. > > I think we don't even need to have a -vga sga switch then. Since sgabios > does not prevent output from going to the normal vga, we could always > install it, or install when there is a -serial parameter present. Is that true? It needs to load during video bios init, no? So doesn't that preclude having a normal video bios installed? Regards, Anthony Liguori