From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NANI6-0002yg-SC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:36:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NANI1-0002v7-9R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:36:14 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42837 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NANI1-0002ub-0w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:36:09 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:62502) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NANI0-0003Gj-Ox for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:36:08 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NANHz-0006a9-MY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:36:08 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:36:03 +0000 References: <1258394678-8634-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <200911171136.33909.paul@codesourcery.com> <4B02968C.6060606@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4B02968C.6060606@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911171236.03478.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Kevin O'Connor , qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > In fact I'd much prefer to see extboot rewritten to just virtio-block. > > Hmm, I'd prefer something which is *not* used by the guest OS, so it is > a pure bootloader thing. When using it to boot from scsi you don't want > to have the disk show up twice (as virtio and scsi) in the guest. You're assuming noone ever writes OS support for extboot... Paul