From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: blauwirbel@gmail.com, kevin@koconnor.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 12/16] Add bootindex parameter to net/block/fd device
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:53:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110128155356.GC2086@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ei7xjgvl.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:29:50PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > If bootindex is specified on command line a string that describes device
> > in firmware readable way is added into sorted list. Later this list will
> > be passed into firmware to control boot order.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
>
> Out of curiosity: what about qdev "scsi-generic"? Can't we boot from
> that?
What device exactly scsi-generic supports? scsi-disk has call to
add_boot_device_path() though we cannot boot from it without extboot
now.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-28 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 11:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 00/16] boot order specification Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 01/16] Introduce fw_name field to DeviceInfo structure Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 02/16] Introduce new BusInfo callback get_fw_dev_path Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 03/16] Keep track of ISA ports ISA device is using in qdev Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 04/16] Add get_fw_dev_path callback to ISA bus " Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 05/16] Store IDE bus id in IDEBus structure for easy access Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 06/16] Add get_fw_dev_path callback to IDE bus Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 07/16] Add get_fw_dev_path callback for system bus Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 08/16] Add get_fw_dev_path callback for pci bus Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 09/16] Record which USBDevice USBPort belongs too Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 10/16] Add get_fw_dev_path callback for usb bus Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 11/16] Add get_fw_dev_path callback to scsi bus Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 12/16] Add bootindex parameter to net/block/fd device Gleb Natapov
2011-01-28 13:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-01-28 15:53 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2011-01-28 17:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-02-02 15:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-02-02 15:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-02-02 15:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 13/16] Change fw_cfg_add_file() to get full file path as a parameter Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 14/16] Add bootindex for option roms Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 15/16] Add notifier that will be called when machine is fully created Gleb Natapov
2010-12-08 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 16/16] Pass boot device list to firmware Gleb Natapov
2010-12-11 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv8 00/16] boot order specification Blue Swirl
2010-12-11 16:06 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-12-11 17:19 ` Blue Swirl
2010-12-11 18:02 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-12-11 18:27 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-12-11 19:06 ` Blue Swirl
2010-12-11 19:11 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-12-11 23:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-12-11 18:59 ` Blue Swirl
2010-12-11 23:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-12-14 19:59 ` Andreas Färber
2010-12-14 20:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-12-14 23:02 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-17 14:05 ` Andreas Färber
2010-12-11 22:10 ` Blue Swirl
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