On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:22:59AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 05/11/2010 03:31 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >Real BIOS can do that because it enumerates all bootable devices, > >attach name for each one of them and then asks user to configure > >boot order using names it attached to devices. In our case we > >want to provide boot order on qemu command line before BIOS > >enumerated devices, so qemu should be able to pass enough information > >about boot device so that BIOS can uniquely identify it after it will > >discover all bootable devices. bus/device pair can be such thing. > > Having a BIOS menu is also useful, you don't have to drop to the > management tool, instead you do everything from the console.
Having a "setup menu" is something real hardware could use as well. I don't think the setup menu should be in SeaBIOS - instead, SeaBIOS could launch another program (stored in flash or qemu_fw) dedicated to doing setup. > >>Alternatively we can seed the order from the command line (-boot > >>id1,id2,id3 where id* are some qdev property attached to disks, this > >>is more flexible than the current syntax I think). > >> > >The problem is how to communicate this order to Seabios. > > Topology (bus/device/lun). USB is a pain here. It's posible with BDF (Bus/Dev/Fn) and port number (which accounts for hubs having ports as well). -Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
