* [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option
@ 2007-10-04 3:11 J. Mayer
2007-10-04 11:38 ` Thiemo Seufer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: J. Mayer @ 2007-10-04 3:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
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.
Please comment.
--
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option
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
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thiemo Seufer @ 2007-10-04 11:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: J. Mayer; +Cc: qemu-devel
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.
Thiemo
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option
2007-10-04 11:38 ` Thiemo Seufer
@ 2007-10-05 12:36 ` J. Mayer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: J. Mayer @ 2007-10-05 12:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thiemo Seufer; +Cc: qemu-devel
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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