From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1co3Hy-0002XF-7z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:24:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1co3Hw-0004fy-Fd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:24:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1co3Hw-0004fq-9r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:24:04 -0400 Message-ID: <1489562641.15659.16.camel@redhat.com> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:24:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1489561105.24841.25.camel@nokia.com> References: <1489510640.8844.18.camel@redhat.com> <1489561105.24841.25.camel@nokia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/6] "bootonceindex" property List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Janne Huttunen Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, > The short answer: emulating real hardware. >=20 > Since real HW has this capability, there exist certain > auxiliary systems that are built on it. Having similar > semantics available in QEMU allows me to build a virtual > machine that works with these systems without modifying > them in any way. Ok, that is reason enough. Adding bootonceindex everywhere doesn't look like the best plan to me though. Possibly we can pimp up bootindex in a backward-compatible way? Something like bootindex=3D[.] ? cheers, Gerd