Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] Workaround to bypass default qemu boot devices passed to SLOF

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:30:03 +0530, Avik Sil <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> We do want to use -boot [cad], but not for the nvram saved
> >> boot-device. That is done automatically in SLOF. If there is a property
> >> saved named boot-device, its going to use that for booting.
> >
> > Hrm. Ok, how about we change the default string to
> >
> >    xcad
> >
> > with x meaning "device stored in nvram". Then any time you specify
> > -boot it would override the nvram device, but you could also
> > manually specify "I want to only boot from the nvram device, no
> > fallbacks".
> >
> Setting default string to "xcad" might jeopardize behavior of other 
> machines (about hundred of them) that are passed boot_devices through 
> machine->init()

We need to make sure that "x" is unused by any of these machines. IMO,
apart from that there should not be any issues.

Regards
Nikunj