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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:58 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 11/09/09 17:06, Paul Brook wrote:
>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> $subject says pretty much everything.
>>>>
>>>> extboot.[cS] are a straight copy from the kvm tree.  The windup in 
>>>> vl,c
>>>> and hw/pc.c is done slightly different, I've added a function to 
>>>> lookup
>>>> the boot drive instead of adding a new global variable.
>>>
>>> I think the function here is high even if the implementation is ugly.
>>> In the past, Paul strongly objected to this.  Paul, care to comment?
>>
>> Doesn't gpxe support virtio-blk, without requiring any additional qemu
>> "features"?
>
> As far I know patches exist but where never merged.
> Also there is no way to boot from scsi+usb ...

I think Kevin mentioned he would likely to usb boot support for 
SeaBIOS.  Adding virtio-blk support to SeaBIOS would also be pretty 
reasonable.

SCSI is a bit more tough.  Doing an LSI driver in SeaBIOS would be a bit 
tougher.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori