From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:03:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA6AA7F.7060005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA69095.5070200@codemonkey.ws>
On 09/08/09 19:12, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I'm still not convinced we need extboot for all bioses on the long term.
>> And I think we should define new interfaces in a way that finally makes
>> it obsolete, at least for our "home bios" (whatever it will be).
>
> What we won't need long term is the extboot interface (hw/extboot.c).
> Ideally, we would rewrite the extboot option rom to have a proper
> virtio-blk driver in it. Better yet, to finish up Laurent's work of
> adding virtio-blk support to gpxe since it gives us bcv for free.
That doesn't cover booting from scsi.
It also doesn't cover booting from usb.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 9:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-08 9:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] extboot: add option rom Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-08 9:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] extboot: qemu code Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-08 11:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-08 13:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-09-08 14:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-08 14:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-08 16:05 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-08 17:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-08 19:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-08 19:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-08 20:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-08 20:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-12 15:03 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-09-08 14:40 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-08 14:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-08 16:15 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-08 17:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-08 19:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-09-08 19:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-12 15:43 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-09-08 14:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-11-09 16:06 ` Paul Brook
2009-11-09 16:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-09 16:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 13:01 ` Hannes Reinecke
2009-11-11 13:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 13:54 ` Paul Brook
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