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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re:
	[Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?)
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To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, glommer@redhat.com, seabios@seabios.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:12:21AM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:52:34PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I am mostly concerned with migrating between qemu versions with
> > different roms, while guest was in the middle of running ROM.
> > This might be solved if we migrated ROM content together with
> > the device and put some padding in ROM content so that
> > size can be kept constant.
> 
> SeaBIOS will always copy the roms into the 0xc0000-0xf0000 memory area
> (regardless of CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED).  So, if one migrates a
> machine while running a rom, the memory holding the rom should get
> migrated with everything else.
> 
Yes, but if migration happens in the middle of the copying...

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			Gleb.