On 4/23/08, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nguyen Anh Quynh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am thinking about comibing this ROM with the extboot. Both two ROM > > are about "booting", so I think that is reasonable. So we will have > > only 1 ROM that supports both external boot and Linux boot. > > > > Is that desirable or not? > > > > > > Does it make the code simpler and easier to understand? If not, then I > would say no.
Actually no. I must say that it looks ugly to me. The fact is that linuxboot ROM and extboot ROM are about different things, and they only share a bit in that they both intercept int 19. I very much like the the Unix principal, that is "Does one thing, and does it well", so I prefer to have 2 independent ROM: one to boot Linux, and one to do external boot. I see no problem that we have more than one ROM, and these two can be independently loaded into the memory. So I think I agree with Peter here. Thanks, Q ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
