From: "J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:36:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191587812.31950.60.camel@rapid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004113835.GR16772@networkno.de>
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 12:38 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> J. Mayer wrote:
> > 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 <filename> 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.
>
> I welcome this, especially since the various mips machine emulations
> may have several alternative BIOS implementations soon.
Hi,
OK, I will apply this soon.
--
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 3:11 [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option J. Mayer
2007-10-04 11:38 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-10-05 12:36 ` J. Mayer [this message]
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