From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59347 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5Opq-0004rB-6u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:19:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5OpV-00063A-Ly for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:19:02 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48426 helo=mail.zytor.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5OpV-00061R-FG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:18:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4CB37111.7070804@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:18:25 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios References: <20101011101855.GA25030@redhat.com> <4CB2E7D0.1010702@redhat.com> <4CB2FDF2.1020705@redhat.com> <4CB36AAD.7030101@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4CB36AAD.7030101@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Kevin Wolf , seabios@seabios.org, Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 10/11/2010 12:51 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > -kernel hijacks int19 so it cannot participate in any kind of boot > order. It's either present (and therefore the bootable disk) or not > present. > That's a misdesign, though: it should be able to participate in BBS as a BEV. -hpa