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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] linuxboot Option ROM for Linux kernel booting
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To: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

Nguyen Anh Quynh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking about comibing this ROM with the extboot. Both two ROM
> are about "booting", so I think that is reasonable. So we will have
> only 1 ROM that supports both external boot and Linux boot.
>
> Is that desirable or not?
>   

I think so.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori