[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:32:48PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 11.10.2010 12:18, schrieb Gleb Natapov:
> > Currently if VM is started with multiple disks it is almost impossible to
> > guess which one of them will be used as boot device especially if there
> > is a mix of ATA/virtio/SCSI devices. Essentially BIOS decides the order
> > and without looking into the code you can't tell what the order will
> > be (and in qemu-kvm if boot=on is used it brings even more havoc). We
> > should allow fine-grained control of boot order from qemu command line,
> > or as a minimum control what device will be used for booting.
> > 
> > To do that along with inventing syntax to specify boot order on qemu
> > command line we need to communicate boot order to seabios via fw_cfg
> > interface. For that we need to have a way to unambiguously specify a
> > disk from qemu to seabios.  PCI bus address is not enough since not all
> > devices are PCI (do we care about them?) 
> 
> Floppy? Yes, I think we do.
> 
> > and since one PCI device may
> > control more then one disk (ATA slave/master, SCSI LUNs). We can do what
> > EDD specification does. Describe disk as:
> >     bus type (isa/pci),
> >     address on a bus (16 bit base address for isa, b/s/f for pci)
> >     device type (ATA/SCSI/VIRTIO)
> >     device path (slave/master for ATA, LUN for SCSI, nothing for virtio)
> 
> If we had a qdev ID for all devices (which I think we should have
> anyway), would this work or is a string not really handy enough?
> 
Given qdev ID how seabios knows what device it corresponds to?

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			Gleb.