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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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>> Wrong. Loading a pxe rom makes qemu trying to boot from it, even with
>> -boot c (using the roms shipped in pc-bios/).
>
> Only with the e1000 because the rom is misconfig. Try the ne2k or the
> rtl8139.

rtl8139 works indeed (and shows up in the F12 menu as it should).

>> It's pc-specific though, so when we go the route of loading roms
>> unconditionally we need to wrap that into a machine-specific helper
>> function so it happes on TARGET_I386 only.
>
> No, it's not pc-specific. An e1000 card on a PPC still has an x86 option
> rom. Whether it gets loaded and how it gets loaded depends on the
> target, but not the existence of the rom on the device.

Yep, the *loading* is what I was referring to (see $subject) ...

cheers,
   Gerd