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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loading overhaul.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:38:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091220083857.GE4490@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261134074-11795-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:01:06PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> 
>   Hi,
> 
> Option rom saga continued.  This is the first series I consider ready
> for merging.  Changes:
> 
>   * pci roms: will be loaded via option pci rom bar.
>   * non-pci roms: will be loaded via fw_cfg.
> 
> Note that using the old bochs-bios based pc-bios will stop working
> with this patch series applied.
> 
> The last two patches of this series are *not* intended to be merged,
> they are just for testing convinience.  They carry a new seabios
> binary and the changes needed and turn on bios debug messages in qemu.
> 
> Seabios patches will be posted shortly as separate patch series.
> 
I see that this is merged already, but I have a question. How migration
during ROM loading suppose to work? What will happed if we migrate to newer
qemu with updated vgabios ROM while BIOS is in the middle of loading it on the
source? It seems that destination will have garbled ROM loaded.

--
			Gleb.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-20  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-18 11:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loading overhaul Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] Support PCI based option rom loading Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-19 10:57   ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-20 15:34     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 17:02       ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-20 17:18         ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-20 17:55           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 18:01             ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-20 18:24               ` Andreas Färber
2009-12-20 18:53                 ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-20 21:24                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-12-20 21:23               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] pci romfiles: add property, add default to PCIDeviceInfo Gerd Hoffmann
2010-01-11 21:18   ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New naming rules for GPXE romfiles Stefan Weil
2010-01-11 21:34     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-12 10:23     ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] fw_cfg: make calls typesafe Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] fw_cfg: add API for file transfer Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-19 12:06   ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-20  8:42   ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] " Gleb Natapov
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] roms: use new fw_cfg file xfer support Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-20  8:45   ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] " Gleb Natapov
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] roms: remove option rom packing logic Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] updated seabios binary for testing convinience Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] debug: enable bios messages Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 14:35 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loading overhaul Anthony Liguori
2009-12-18 16:34   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 16:42     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-18 17:03       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 17:12         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-19  1:48           ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-19  3:07             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-18 17:14         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-18 18:04           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-12-18 19:41         ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-18 19:53           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-18 20:10             ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-20  8:38 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2009-12-20 14:43   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 14:52     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 14:58       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 15:07         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 15:11           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 15:20             ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-20 15:31               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 15:35                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-22 13:04               ` Paul Brook
2009-12-22 13:09                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-22 15:11                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-22 15:54                   ` Paul Brook
2009-12-22 16:16                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 15:23             ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 15:28               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 15:33                 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 15:39                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-20 15:52                     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 16:08                       ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-20 16:15                         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-20 16:23                           ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-20 17:48                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-21  1:59                         ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-12-21  7:32                           ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 16:40                             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-21 16:43                               ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 17:26                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-21 17:43                                   ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 18:24                                     ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-21 18:36                                       ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 19:28                                         ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-21 19:57                                           ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 19:17                                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-12-21 19:39                                         ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-21 19:53                                           ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 20:16                                             ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-22  7:58                                               ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-22 14:57                                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-21 19:48                                         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 19:13                                     ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loading overhaul Anthony Liguori
2009-12-21 19:43                                       ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 23:54                                         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-22 20:50                                           ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul Sebastian Herbszt
2009-12-21  7:40                         ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loading overhaul Gleb Natapov
2009-12-21 17:27                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-12  4:48                   ` Jamie Lokier

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