From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IdH83-0002TS-0u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:11:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IdH81-0002QJ-BX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:11:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdH81-0002Q3-5T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:11:57 -0400 Received: from bangui.magic.fr ([195.154.194.245]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IdH80-0000IO-Qk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:11:57 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ppp-36.net-123.static.magiconline.fr [80.118.184.36]) by bangui.magic.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l943BsM5007343 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 05:11:54 +0200 From: "J. Mayer" Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:11:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1191467515.31950.41.camel@rapid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, This is a proposal to allow the user to select a BIOS file name on the command line. The goal is mainly to ease debug, for example when I want to try to run a firmware comming from a real machine instead of the default one. The only change is to add a -bios option, use the given file if any or use the default if none were given. Maybe the options would be better named as -biosfile.... Or it maybe a good idea to give a full path, not to concatenate the given name with the bios_dir prefix... Some may find this option is not so useful, as one can specify a directory to find the target BIOS. But I feel more confortable keeping all BIOS images together at the same place. Please comment. -- J. Mayer Never organized