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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:06:09 +0000
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Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > $subject says pretty much everything.
> >
> > extboot.[cS] are a straight copy from the kvm tree.  The windup in vl,c
> > and hw/pc.c is done slightly different, I've added a function to lookup
> > the boot drive instead of adding a new global variable.
> 
> I think the function here is high even if the implementation is ugly.
> In the past, Paul strongly objected to this.  Paul, care to comment?

Doesn't gpxe support virtio-blk, without requiring any additional qemu 
"features"?

Paul