From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Armbruster Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 12/16] Add bootindex parameter to net/block/fd device Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:19:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1291808109-22563-1-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> <1291808109-22563-13-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> <20110128155356.GC2086@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, blauwirbel@gmail.com, kevin@koconnor.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Gleb Natapov Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19330 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754798Ab1A1RUA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:20:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110128155356.GC2086@redhat.com> (Gleb Natapov's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:53:57 +0200") Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Gleb Natapov writes: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:29:50PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Gleb Natapov writes: >> >> > If bootindex is specified on command line a string that describes device >> > in firmware readable way is added into sorted list. Later this list will >> > be passed into firmware to control boot order. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov >> >> Out of curiosity: what about qdev "scsi-generic"? Can't we boot from >> that? > What device exactly scsi-generic supports? scsi-disk has call to > add_boot_device_path() though we cannot boot from it without extboot > now. It's host SCSI generic device (/dev/sg*) pass through. So it's whatever real device is passed through.