On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Herbszt wrote: >> >> Laurent Vivier wrote: >>> >>> This patch allows to select and boot from an option ROM >>> with a Boot Connection Vector (BCV) entry. >>> >>> The BIOS detects the BCV option ROM and adds it to the IPL table, and >>> then >>> you are able to select it to boot. >>> >>> This patch has been tested with Bochs BIOS version from the KVM source >>> tree >>> and a gPXE ROM modified to be a BCV one. >> >> Any plans to convert extboot into a compatible option rom? > > I think the plan is to replace extboot with gPXE, and load it by default in > QEMU. Since it supports BCV and BEV, we can rely on passing a boot index to > choose which device to boot from. > > I was thinking about what to do about SCSI boot support. We could add an > LSI driver to gPXE too. That seems like a bit much though. We could add a > special virtio transport for gPXE and then reuse virtio-blk to boot from > arbitrary devices.
So are you still interested in rewriting extboot in C, which I submitted the draft a while ago? If it can be merged, I will adapt it to QEMU and resubmit again soon. Thanks, Quynh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
