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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>

   Hi,

> Again I don't follow. We can just lay out the ROMs in memory like we did
> in the past?

Well.  We have some size issues then.  PCI ROMS are loaded by the BIOS 
in a way that only a small fraction is actually resident in the small 
0xd0000 -> 0xe0000 area.  That doesn't work if qemu tries to simply copy 
the whole thing there like old versions did.  With the size of the gPXE 
roms this matters in real life.

cheers,
   Gerd