Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch

2011-04-12 Thread Glauber Costa
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:19 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 04/12/2011 01:47 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > > For sure, but if we had this discussion a while ago, > > sgabios wouldn't exist back then, and now it does =p > > Actually, it's been around for ages :-) > > >>>And the fact that not a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch

2011-04-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 04/12/2011 01:47 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: For sure, but if we had this discussion a while ago, sgabios wouldn't exist back then, and now it does =p Actually, it's been around for ages :-) And the fact that not all of them should live in genroms persists. Actually genroms should disappe

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch

2011-04-12 Thread Glauber Costa
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:31 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 04/12/2011 01:13 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:40 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> On 04/12/2011 12:23 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > >>> The option-rom puts all roms passed by this switch in the genroms > >>> dir

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch

2011-04-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 04/12/2011 01:13 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:40 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 04/12/2011 12:23 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: The option-rom puts all roms passed by this switch in the genroms directory, through the fw_dir option. But as it turns out, not all roms should be

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch

2011-04-12 Thread Glauber Costa
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:40 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 04/12/2011 12:23 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > > The option-rom puts all roms passed by this switch in the genroms directory, > > through the fw_dir option. But as it turns out, not all roms should be > > placed there. > > > > VGA roms ar

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch

2011-04-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 04/12/2011 12:23 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: The option-rom puts all roms passed by this switch in the genroms directory, through the fw_dir option. But as it turns out, not all roms should be placed there. VGA roms are a of a different kind. They live in a different segment, and are scanned f

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add fw_dir option to option-rom switch

2011-04-12 Thread Glauber Costa
The option-rom puts all roms passed by this switch in the genroms directory, through the fw_dir option. But as it turns out, not all roms should be placed there. VGA roms are a of a different kind. They live in a different segment, and are scanned first. This patch allows qemu to use external vg