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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:50:53 +0200
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@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 04:41:33PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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.
> 
Directly from PCI ROM? Is this even possible?

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			Gleb.