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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Alexander Graf <alex@csgraf.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] x86 Multiboot support (extended)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:37:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D7EAA2.8060207@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6ABEEC1-D36F-411E-BFE8-4F1611844E9A@csgraf.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:57 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Better yet to package all kernel loading hacks in your option ROM and 
> eliminate the bootsector hacks. Mind to do it? ;-).

It's on my TODO, just not very high at the moment.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12 14:37 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
2008-03-12  8:24         ` Alexander Graf
2008-03-12 14:37           ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-03-12  7:32       ` Alexander Graf

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