From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NANgd-0000M5-Ph for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:01:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NANgZ-0000JC-1d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:01:35 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58549 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NANgY-0000J8-GF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:01:30 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18577) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NANgX-0007P2-Te for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:01:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4B029E9D.3050003@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:17 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded. References: <1258394678-8634-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <200911171136.33909.paul@codesourcery.com> <4B02968C.6060606@redhat.com> <200911171236.03478.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200911171236.03478.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: Kevin O'Connor , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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