From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B029E9D.3050003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911171236.03478.paul@codesourcery.com>
On 11/17/09 13:36, Paul Brook wrote:
>>> In fact I'd much prefer to see extboot rewritten to just virtio-block.
>>
>> Hmm, I'd prefer something which is *not* used by the guest OS, so it is
>> a pure bootloader thing. When using it to boot from scsi you don't want
>> to have the disk show up twice (as virtio and scsi) in the guest.
>
> You're assuming noone ever writes OS support for extboot...
Which would be almost as silly as writing OS support for bios-int13 ...
cheers
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 13:01 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
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 [this message]
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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