Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 October 2012 15:21, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Gibson <address@hidden> writes:
>> That's true to an extent.  However, I vehemently disagree that it's
>> arbitrary which one gets the new option.  Neither -boot nor bootindex=
>> alter any persistent data now and they should not suddenly start doing
>> so.
>
> That's not true.
>
> For the PC, -boot modifies the CMOS memory.  If we persisted CMOS, then
> -boot would cause a persistent modification in the boot order.

That would be a bug you'd need to fix if we persisted CMOS :-)

-- PMM