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Il 01/10/2013 17:12, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> > I just need some way to have different default firmware images for
>> > different pc machine type versions.  Requests to considering other
>> > firmware loading needs (such as the two images needed for sPAPR) when
>> > doing this is reasonable.  Blaming me for how inconistent qemu's
>> > firmware loading is today is not ok.
> You're defining new command line syntax -- it seems reasonable
> to think about what it ought to actually mean rather than just
> saying "it should mean the same collection of random stuff
> that -bios means". If you're going to do that you should just stick
> with -bios...

What it ought to mean could be "the ROM that bootstraps the machine by
loading stuff from a drive (could be NAND, SD or a hardware component
such as virtio/IDE/SCSI)".  But most machines sidestep this by loading
the kernel directly in RAM.

Paolo