Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Brook
On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > But why? Why do we have to emulate the entire HBA for the BIOS? > > The HBA is emulated, too, and just uses the bdrv interface > > internally anyway. > > So IMHO it makes far more sense to skip the HBA emulation in >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

2009-11-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hannes Reinecke wrote: But why? Why do we have to emulate the entire HBA for the BIOS? The HBA is emulated, too, and just uses the bdrv interface internally anyway. So IMHO it makes far more sense to skip the HBA emulation in the BIOS completely and just use the bdrv interface directly here.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

2009-11-11 Thread Hannes Reinecke
Anthony Liguori wrote: > Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> On 11/09/09 17:06, Paul Brook wrote: >>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > $subject says pretty much everything. > > extboot.[cS] are a straight copy from the kvm tree. The windup in > v

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

2009-11-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 11/09/09 17:06, Paul Brook wrote: On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: Gerd Hoffmann wrote: $subject says pretty much everything. extboot.[cS] are a straight copy from the kvm tree. The windup in vl,c and hw/pc.c is done slightly different, I've added

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

2009-11-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 11/09/09 17:06, Paul Brook wrote: On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: Gerd Hoffmann wrote: $subject says pretty much everything. extboot.[cS] are a straight copy from the kvm tree. The windup in vl,c and hw/pc.c is done slightly different, I've added a function to lookup t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Brook
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > $subject says pretty much everything. > > > > extboot.[cS] are a straight copy from the kvm tree. The windup in vl,c > > and hw/pc.c is done slightly different, I've added a function to lookup > > the boot drive instea