On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:35:52PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> -kernel didn't work on a quick test. > > Thinking about how to fix this, we have two options.
Hmm, can you pls explain why it stops working? > The first would be > to use the support in SeaBIOS for static roms but that would limit us to > two user supplied option roms (including kernel/multiboot/extboot). We > could extend this to more than two roms but I think that's generally > ugly. > > Alternatively, we could introduce a special rom-only PCI device. > Besides getting support for a much greater number of option roms, it > also gives us a much nicer way to integrate multiboot/linux boot support > via qdev (instead of the ugly machine hack we have now). > > We could make them multifunction devices so that we don't unnecessarily > burn PCI slots to support roms. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori >> cheers, >> Gerd Will be a problem for non-PCI systems? -- MST
