On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:54:35AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/04/2010 01:06 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>Why do we need to transfer roms? These are devices on the memory > >>bus or pci bus, it just needs to be there at the right address. > >>Boot splash should just be another rom as it would be on a real > >>system. > >Just like the initrd? > > There isn't enough address space for a 100MB initrd in ROM.
Because of limits of the original PC, sure, where you had to fit everything in 0xa0000-0xfffff or whatever it was. But this isn't a real PC. You can map the read-only memory anywhere you want. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- 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
