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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?
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To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Cc: marc.mari.barcelo@gmail.com, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:44:32PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:17:30PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I'd dearly love to get rid of the sgabios option ROM.  It looks like
> > SeaBIOS nearly supports a full serial console now?
> 
> Last I checked, one could disable the option rom by adding "-device
> VGA,romfile=" to the qemu command line.

Sure, I can easily remove sgabios.  The problem is I still want my
serial console to show BIOS messages!

Rich.

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