From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAAE9-0002vG-21 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:17 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAAE4-0002sE-LA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:16 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48277 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAAE4-0002s7-9p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:12 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:36948) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAAE3-0003w5-SO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:39:08 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded. Message-ID: <20091116223908.GD12063@shareable.org> References: <1258394678-8634-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <4B01A6E0.2060802@codemonkey.ws> <4B01B419.50905@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B01B419.50905@redhat.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 11/16/09 20:24, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >If we were going to introduce a light weight block protocol like this, > >I'd rather it be implemented in SeaBIOS as a block driver. > > Ok. That would mean to replace the option rom with a seabios patch. > The qemu code will be unmodified though (except for the rom loading). Can't extboot be used with other BIOSes, though, being an option ROM? -- Jamie