From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52403 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiqeB-00071q-3o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:54:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Piqe9-0001XG-RS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:54:02 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Piqe9-0001VR-Hn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:54:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:53:57 +0200 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv8 12/16] Add bootindex parameter to net/block/fd device Message-ID: <20110128155356.GC2086@redhat.com> References: <1291808109-22563-1-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> <1291808109-22563-13-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: blauwirbel@gmail.com, kevin@koconnor.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:29:50PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Gleb Natapov 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 > > 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.