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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions
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Kevin O'Connor |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file. |
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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:02:59 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:43:39AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:08:24PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > As an aside, it would be good to have a conversation on general BIOS
> > configuration options. These types of settings are going to be useful
> > on real hardware also - it would be nice to come up with a scheme that
> > would work on qemu and coreboot. Maybe something like
> > get_config_u32("ShowBootMenu") - where on qemu it would get the info
> > from the qemu port but on coreboot it would pull the setting from the
> > coreboot flash filesystem.
> >
> Lets have conversation now. Sounds useful to me. Do you want to use
> strings as option names though? They add to BIOS image size and it is
> limited, no?
My preference is strings - I think the long-term flexibility they
provide is worth the slight additional overhead they require.
Currently, SeaBIOS is just under 64K -- if features continue to get
added (eg, usb keyboard/boot) then it will likely creep into the
e-segment. I don't foresee any hard limits on space coming up.
-Kevin
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Gleb Natapov, 2009/09/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Kevin O'Connor, 2009/09/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Gleb Natapov, 2009/09/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file.,
Kevin O'Connor <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Gleb Natapov, 2009/09/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Kevin O'Connor, 2009/09/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Gleb Natapov, 2009/09/18
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Kevin O'Connor, 2009/09/19
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Gleb Natapov, 2009/09/19
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Kevin O'Connor, 2009/09/29
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Gleb Natapov, 2009/09/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Blue Swirl, 2009/09/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Move qemu config port access functions into separate file., Gleb Natapov, 2009/09/30