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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: "Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"stefano.stabellini@citrix.com" <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: qemu-xen-dir + PCI passthrough = BOOM
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:30:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131231153031.GA20357@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F001D35359@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:25:20AM +0000, Wu, Feng wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
> > [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Ian Campbell
> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:13 AM
> > To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> > Cc: Anthony PERARD; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org;
> > stefano.stabellini@citrix.com
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] qemu-xen-dir + PCI passthrough = BOOM
> > 
> > On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 10:22 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > load_roms and bios_load are not set - so it wouldn't even do it.
> > > It only does it for Bochs BIOS.
> > 
> > Right, this is deliberate.
> > 
> > For ROMBIOS (AKA BOchs BIOS) hvmloader loads the options roms. and I
> > think ROMBIOS subsequently loads them.
> > 
> > For SeaBIOS it is the BIOS itself which both loads and executes the
> > ROMS, which is why it is NULL in hvmloader.
> > 
> > The SeaBIOS way is far more like how systems normally work and because
> > the BIOS is in charge it can do a better job than splitting it between
> > two entities.
> > 
> 
> I am also interested in this thread. Do you know why ROMBIOS doesn't handle
> option ROM the same way as seaBIOS? Is there any special case that ROMBIOS
> cannot handle? Thanks!

When I find out I will make sure to notify you as well.

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-31 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-04 19:51 qemu-xen-dir + PCI passthrough = BOOM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-05 12:16 ` Anthony PERARD
2013-12-06 14:49   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-06 15:35     ` Anthony PERARD
2013-12-06 16:00       ` Wei Liu
2013-12-06 16:03         ` Wei Liu
2013-12-16 15:08           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-18 14:48             ` Anthony PERARD
2013-12-18 14:57               ` Ian Campbell
2013-12-18 15:22                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-18 16:13                   ` Ian Campbell
2013-12-18 16:18                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-12-22 11:25                     ` Wu, Feng
2013-12-31 15:30                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2014-01-06  9:54                       ` Ian Campbell
2014-01-07  0:27                         ` Wu, Feng
2014-01-08 19:44               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-01-09 14:56                 ` Anthony PERARD
2014-01-09 15:36                   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2014-01-09 15:43                     ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2014-01-09 23:54                   ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-01-10  0:17                     ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-01-10  0:22                       ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-01-10  3:28                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-01-10 15:19                     ` Anthony PERARD
2014-01-10 16:05                       ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-01-10 16:25                         ` Anthony PERARD
2014-01-10 16:38                           ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-01-10 16:35                         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-01-10 17:38                           ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-01-10 18:01                             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-01-26  0:05                   ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-01-27 12:12                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-01-27 15:34                       ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-01-27 15:37                         ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-01-31 15:23                         ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-01-26  2:15                   ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-01-16  6:40 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-01-16 11:36   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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