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Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?) |
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:17:15 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:35:52PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> -kernel didn't work on a quick test.
>
> Thinking about how to fix this, we have two options.
Hmm, can you pls explain why it stops working?
> The first would be
> to use the support in SeaBIOS for static roms but that would limit us to
> two user supplied option roms (including kernel/multiboot/extboot). We
> could extend this to more than two roms but I think that's generally
> ugly.
>
> Alternatively, we could introduce a special rom-only PCI device.
> Besides getting support for a much greater number of option roms, it
> also gives us a much nicer way to integrate multiboot/linux boot support
> via qdev (instead of the ugly machine hack we have now).
>
> We could make them multifunction devices so that we don't unnecessarily
> burn PCI slots to support roms.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>> cheers,
>> Gerd
Will be a problem for non-PCI systems?
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- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), (continued)
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Kevin O'Connor, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Gleb Natapov, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Gleb Natapov, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Gleb Natapov, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Anthony Liguori, 2009/12/15
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?),
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Anthony Liguori, 2009/12/15
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Chris Wright, 2009/12/15
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Anthony Liguori, 2009/12/15
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Kevin O'Connor, 2009/12/15
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Kevin O'Connor, 2009/12/16
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/17
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/12/17
- Re: Proper support for PCI-based option rom loading (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?), Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/12/17