From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNUdZ-0002vn-AB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:55:33 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNUdV-0002pu-H2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:55:32 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNUdU-0002pX-Up for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:55:29 -0500 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNUdU-00084U-No for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:55:28 -0500 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id y26so1567530ele.18 for ; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:55:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47AC6D5A.2090006@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:55:22 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] boot a linux kernel from non-ide device References: <5d6222a80802072305t2d536595q97d169df9dc00a48@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80802072305t2d536595q97d169df9dc00a48@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > Since it's now possible to use the -drive option, the test for something > in the index 0 of the IDE bus is too restrictive. > > A better idea, IMHO, is to check if the user specified any bootable device, > and only if not, fallback to the default, compatible behaviour of checking > hda regardless of the presence of a boot=on arg. > extboot isn't in upstream QEMU yet so this patch won't apply. Regards, Anthony LIguori