From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B01B419.50905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B01A6E0.2060802@codemonkey.ws>
On 11/16/09 20:24, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> If we were going to introduce a light weight block protocol like this,
> I'd rather it be implemented in SeaBIOS as a block driver.
Ok. That would mean to replace the option rom with a seabios patch.
The qemu code will be unmodified though (except for the rom loading).
> Then we reuse
> all of the int13 code, it gets registered as a BCV device allowing
> selection in the boot menu,
Fine.
> and requires no special options on the
> command line.
>
> It would require a mechanism to do enumeration and identification though.
Huh? Do you want export *all* block devices via extboot? Will IDE
drives show up twice then?
I would export only one and export it only on explicit user request, so
it can be used for cases where seabios has no native support ...
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-16 18:04 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 18:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] extboot: add option rom Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 18:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] extboot: qemu code Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 19:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded Anthony Liguori
2009-11-16 20:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-11-16 21:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-17 11:36 ` Paul Brook
2009-11-17 12:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-17 12:36 ` Paul Brook
2009-11-17 13:01 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-17 13:35 ` Paul Brook
2009-11-17 14:23 ` Alexander Graf
2009-11-17 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-18 4:34 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-11-18 14:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-19 1:27 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-11-16 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-16 22:55 ` Anthony Liguori
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