From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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 14:39:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA6B30F.1070504@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA6AA7F.7060005@redhat.com>
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 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.
It assumes support for both in option roms. The big advantage to gpxe
is that it already has generic scsi support.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> cheers,
> Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 19:40 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
2009-09-08 19:39 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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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