On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 03:21:19PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > On 06/01/2015 03:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 01:40:19PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >>On Mo, 2015-06-01 at 12:44 +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > >>>On 05/31/2015 09:12 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>>>On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 06:34:01PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > >>>>>PXB does not work with unsupported bioses, but should > >>>>>not interfere with normal OS operation. > >>>>>We don't ship them anymore, but it's reasonable > >>>>>to keep the work-around until we update the bios in qemu. > >>>> > >>>>We already did, did we not? > >>>Yes, we did, but Gerd preferred to keep this patch around. > >>>Adding him to thread. > >> > >>seabios bundled with qemu isn't the only possible firmware. > >> > >>We have ovmf, coreboot, qboot. > > > >ovmf is especially interesting. Marcel, did you look at what > >happens with pxb and ovmf? > No, I talked to Laszlo about it, he said ovmf is not there yet. > OVMF will not query the extra buses, so the devices on the extra bus will not > be visible. > Adding him to the thread. > > Thanks, > Marcel
But does OVMF need this specific patch? > > > >>You might boot with old seabios for > >>whatever reasons (say bisecting down something). > > > >But then you won't have pxb, will you? > > > >>IMO qemu should deal > >>with pxe not being initialized by the firmware in a sensible way, for > >>robustness reasons. > >> > >>cheers, > >> Gerd > >>
