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To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Cc: 'Anthony Liguori' <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, 'Dustin Kirkland' <kirkland@canonical.com>, 'Glauber Costa' <glommer@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, 'Alex Graf' <alex@csgraf.de>

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 17.05.2009 21:07, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> So it seems to make little sense to load coreboot just to load
>> seabios.  Of course I'd like to see coreboot supported, but seabios
>> looks like a better primary target.
>>     
>
> Coreboot already works with Qemu and also with Qemu+KVM. In case you
> want to test something without traditional BIOS services, coreboot is
> definitely the way to go.
>   

To be frank, it's not on my top list of priorities.  I want to support 
Windows and Linux running from their traditional installers, as close as 
possible to off-the-shelf hardware.  As far as I can see the best way to 
get there is seabios.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.