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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios
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Gleb Natapov |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios |
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Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:16:34 +0200 |
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:07:14PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >Floppy? Yes, I think we do.
>
> And *one* floppy controllers can actually have *two* drives
> connected, although booting from 'b' doesn't work IIRC.
>
> >>and since one PCI device may
> >>control more then one disk (ATA slave/master, SCSI LUNs). We can do what
> >>EDD specification does. Describe disk as:
> >> bus type (isa/pci),
> >> address on a bus (16 bit base address for isa, b/s/f for pci)
> >> device type (ATA/SCSI/VIRTIO)
> >> device path (slave/master for ATA, LUN for SCSI, nothing for virtio)
> >
> >If we had a qdev ID for all devices (which I think we should have
> >anyway), would this work or is a string not really handy enough?
>
> I think we'll need support for that in all drivers supporting boot
> anyway, i.e. have virtio-blk-pci register a boot edd when configured
> that way. Question is how to configure this. We could attach the
> boot index to either the blockdev or the device, i.e.
>
> -blockdev foo,bootindex=1
>
> or
>
> -device virtio-blk-pci,bootindex=1
>
> The latter looks more useful to me, boot order is guest state imho,
> also it might expand to PXE booting nicely, i.e.
>
> -device e1000,bootindex=2
>
Yes, boot order is a guest sate managed by BIOS on real HW.
> Which turns up the question how this plays with option roms.
> seabios should be able to order at pci device level at least when
> booting via (pci) option rom. OK for nics. Booting from a scsi
> disk with id != 0 using the lsi rom is probably impossible though.
>
> What about non-pci option roms? The one used for -kernel for example?
>
-option-rom rom.bin,bootindex=3?
We can pass boot index along with option rom via fw_cfg interface.
--
Gleb.
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Kevin Wolf, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios,
Gleb Natapov <=
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Sebastian Herbszt, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/12