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| From: | Paolo Bonzini |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] turn firmware image filename into a machine option |
| Date: | Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:28:34 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130923 Thunderbird/17.0.9 |
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
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