From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9j7Q-0001ee-9h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:19:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9j7P-0006Oa-7K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:19:20 -0400 Received: from e37.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.158]:58834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9j7P-0006Mp-28 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:19:19 -0400 Received: from d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.228]) by e37.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p3CJGTCK028673 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:16:29 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p3CJJBJg125688 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:19:12 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p3CJJBRa021631 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:19:11 -0600 Message-ID: <4DA4A5AD.4080208@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:19:09 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1302629037-16084-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1302629037-16084-3-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <4DA48E93.90505@us.ibm.com> <1302631996.3021.28.camel@mothafucka.localdomain> <4DA49A80.3080701@us.ibm.com> <1302634073.3021.31.camel@mothafucka.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1302634073.3021.31.camel@mothafucka.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Glauber Costa Cc: Gleb Natapov , mtosatti@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com 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