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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] qemu option loading
@ 2009-12-18 11:16 Gerd Hoffmann
  2009-12-18 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Do not guard qemu shadow ram work around in CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED Gerd Hoffmann
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Gerd Hoffmann @ 2009-12-18 11:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel, seabios; +Cc: Gerd Hoffmann

  Hi,

qemu is about to change the way how option roms are loaded.  pci roms
will be loaded into a option rom bar (like real hardware does).
non-pci roms can be loaded using the qemu firmware interface.

With this change seabios will deploy all roms instead of having qemu
copy them to the 0xc0000 -> 0e0000 range.  Advantages are:

  * roms can be packed better, especially in case they resize themself
    (like the gPXE roms do).
  * rom area is a bit larger as seabios can additionally use the
    unused regions of the 0xe0000 segment.
  * the whole process comes closer to what happens on real hardware.

cheers,
  Gerd

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2009-12-18 11:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] qemu option loading Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Do not guard qemu shadow ram work around in CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Disable CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED by default Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] move htonl() + friends to util.h Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qemu: add rom loading via fw_cfg Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 15:41 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/4] qemu option loading Anthony Liguori
2009-12-18 15:52   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 16:22     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-18 16:37       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 23:40     ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-19  0:37 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-19  2:55   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-19  3:37     ` Kevin O'Connor

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