From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
mtosatti@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:19:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA4A5AD.4080208@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302634073.3021.31.camel@mothafucka.localdomain>
On 04/12/2011 01:47 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> For sure, but if we had this discussion a while ago,
> sgabios wouldn't exist back then, and now it does =p
Actually, it's been around for ages :-)
>>> And the fact that not all of them should
>>> live in genroms persists.
>> Actually genroms should disappear. We should make -option-rom work by
>> using a dummy PCI device or something like that.
> In a side track, I think sgabios is a pretty useful addition to qemu.
> Would you consider including it together with the other roms ?
Definitely.
> This would definitely increase the out-of-the box experience.
>
> I think we don't even need to have a -vga sga switch then. Since sgabios
> does not prevent output from going to the normal vga, we could always
> install it, or install when there is a -serial parameter present.
Is that true? It needs to load during video bios init, no? So doesn't
that preclude having a normal video bios installed?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-12 17:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] allow fw_dir to be specified in the option-rom switch Glauber Costa
2011-04-12 17:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] document bootindex option Glauber Costa
2011-04-12 17:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch Glauber Costa
2011-04-12 17:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-04-12 18:13 ` Glauber Costa
2011-04-12 18:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-04-12 18:47 ` Glauber Costa
2011-04-12 19:19 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-04-13 0:20 ` Glauber Costa
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