From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52614 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxmMl-0007rd-0v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:21:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxmMj-0001p6-Uj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:21:46 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxmMj-0001oz-MV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:21:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:21:35 +0200 From: Gleb Natapov Message-ID: <20110310202135.GC18052@redhat.com> References: <20110310094726.GB14805@redhat.com> <20110310191246.GA18052@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC: emulation of system flash List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jordan Justen Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , Kevin O'Connor , qemu-devel , Michal Suchanek , Avi Kivity On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:50:42AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: > > It is not even about performance (which will be very bad for 1MB). KVM > > can't run code from MMIO region, so the part that contains firmware > > has to be memory. > > Hmm. That's good to know. :) > > So, perhaps this feature should build upon the other feature you and > Jan are discussing. When will it become available? > When somebody will be motivated enough to send patches. If this was the only thing that stands in a way of QEMU having EFI firmware with CSM support it would have happened much faster though. -- Gleb.