From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoLHN-00060X-In for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:23:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoLHM-00060C-Vt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:23:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JoLHM-000609-Qy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:23:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JoLHM-00018Y-HP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:23:36 -0400 Message-ID: <480E10E5.1000401@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:23:01 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <9cde8bff0804202032k6bd44ac6td913c05410e6284@mail.gmail.com> <9cde8bff0804202033p68524e8ag8503b5ba8ab89100@mail.gmail.com> <9cde8bff0804202036w62cc553fhca142ec2731a3a8e@mail.gmail.com> <9cde8bff0804220207g3fd39012rc8f5480fae34aff2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9cde8bff0804220207g3fd39012rc8f5480fae34aff2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] linuxboot Option ROM for Linux kernel booting Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Nguyen Anh Quynh Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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? > Does it make the code simpler and easier to understand? If not, then I would say no. -hpa