From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3ssW-0003fv-7Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:55:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3ssR-0003cr-Dj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:54:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48260 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3ssR-0003ce-43 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:54:55 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:38787) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3ssQ-0006ii-N5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:54:54 -0400 Received: from d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (d01relay05.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.237]) by e7.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n9UEpMLc027755 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51:22 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n9UEspFj107942 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:54:51 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id n9U4ssrT005287 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:54:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4AEAFE39.1030302@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:54:49 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] PC machine types switched to SeaBIOS/gPXE List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Cc: Kevin O'Connor , beth kon , Avi Kivity , Gleb Natapov Hi, I just wanted to let everyone know that I've switched the PC machine type to SeaBIOS and gPXE. SeaBIOS is a port of the Bochs BIOS to GCC, by Kevin O'Conner, along with quite a lot of clean up and new feature work. gPXE is the new development tree of etherboot which is now deprecated. We've done a lot of testing of and while there are a few outstanding issues, almost everything seems to be working okay. Some known issues: o e1000 pxe booting doesn't seem to work o gPXE does not like the slirp tftp server o SeaBIOS doesn't support CPU hotplug (not an issue for upstream qemu) I've renamed the old pcbios to pcbios.bin. If you suspect a bug in SeaBIOS, you can use "-bios pcbios.bin" to try with the old BIOS in an effort to debug. I want to thank everyone who helped make this all happen. It was a big effort and I think it's going to be a really nice feature for the 0.12.0 release! -- Regards, Anthony Liguori