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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, glommer@redhat.com, seabios@seabios.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>

On 12/15/09 22:41, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> BTW, I'm pretty sure this style of option rom loading (from a PCI
> device) is going to be required for device passthrough if we want to
> support running those roms in the guests.

Well, qemu-kvm has quite some code to poke the rom out of /proc/bus/pci 
and feed it into the rom loader.  All this can simply be dropped then.

cheers
   Gerd