Hi,
qemu is about to change the way how option roms are loaded. pci roms will be loaded into a option rom bar (like real hardware does). non-pci roms can be loaded using the qemu firmware interface.
With this change seabios will deploy all roms instead of having qemu copy them to the 0xc0000 -> 0e0000 range. Advantages are:
* roms can be packed better, especially in case they resize themself (like the gPXE roms do). * rom area is a bit larger as seabios can additionally use the unused regions of the 0xe0000 segment. * the whole process comes closer to what happens on real hardware.
cheers, Gerd