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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:41:33 +0200
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@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: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, glommer@redhat.com, seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/15/09 22:41, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> BTW, I'm pretty sure this style of option rom loading (from a PCI
>> device) is going to be required for device passthrough if we want to
>> support running those roms in the guests.
>
> Well, qemu-kvm has quite some code to poke the rom out of /proc/bus/pci  
> and feed it into the rom loader.  All this can simply be dropped then.
>
> cheers
>   Gerd

It's probably safer not to assume that guest does not run
the rom directly.

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MST