From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IdmRC-0006Ok-OA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:37:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IdmRC-0006Ns-2W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:37:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdmRB-0006Nb-SD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:37:49 -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 1IdmRA-0000lQ-Pg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:37:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option From: "J. Mayer" In-Reply-To: <20071004113835.GR16772@networkno.de> References: <1191467515.31950.41.camel@rapid> <20071004113835.GR16772@networkno.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:36:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1191587812.31950.60.camel@rapid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 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 Never organized