Re: [Qemu-ppc] Qemu boot device precedence over nvram boot-device setting

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 02:43 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > We should also be able to get the raw bootindex values for a qdev,
> > yes?  I was thinking we could instead copy those values into the
> > device tree when we populate it.  The trouble is that we don't
> > actually generate (in qemu) nodes for individual disks under a
> vscsi,
> > or for individual PCI devices under the host bridge (that's done by
> > SLOF).  Still thinking...
> 
> Well. You can track it down to the device level and you know the drive
> index. Maybe you could be clever if you had a device property that
> contains the drive index and boot index to it?

You can but it's hard... eventually we'll do it but it will take some
time. In the meantime, a patch allowing us know whether -boot was
specified at all or not would be handy to make things work as expected
in the most common cases.

Avik & Nikunj are going to send one if not already...

Cheers,
Ben.