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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option
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Thiemo Seufer |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:38:35 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
J. Mayer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a proposal to allow the user to select a BIOS file name on the
> command line. The goal is mainly to ease debug, for example when I want
> to try to run a firmware comming from a real machine instead of the
> default one.
> The only change is to add a -bios <filename> option, use the given file
> if any or use the default if none were given.
> Maybe the options would be better named as -biosfile.... Or it maybe a
> good idea to give a full path, not to concatenate the given name with
> the bios_dir prefix...
> Some may find this option is not so useful, as one can specify a
> directory to find the target BIOS. But I feel more confortable keeping
> all BIOS images together at the same place.
I welcome this, especially since the various mips machine emulations
may have several alternative BIOS implementations soon.
Thiemo