From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] x86 Multiboot support (extended)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:57:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D762CA.4030603@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080311234419.GA32706@volta.aurel32.net>
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:31:09PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Is it really necessary to have *that much* assembly code within hw/pc.c?
>
> I would rather see multiboot support as a small image generated from
> C and/or assembly code, loaded either with -hda or with a new option
> having the same effect. This code could read the NVRAM to get the
> variables it needs.
>
Better yet to package it as an option ROM and eliminate all the boot
sector hacks.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-30 18:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] x86 Multiboot support (extended) Alexander Graf
2008-01-31 9:58 ` Kevin Wolf
2008-01-31 10:19 ` Alexander Graf
2008-01-31 17:31 ` Alexander Graf
2008-02-01 8:41 ` Kevin Wolf
2008-03-11 23:44 ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-12 4:57 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-03-12 8:24 ` Alexander Graf
2008-03-12 14:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-12 7:32 ` Alexander Graf
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