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

Gleb Natapov gleb at redhat.com
Tue Oct 12 09:08:22 CEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:16:38PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > Seabios does not create any bootable devices, it just discovers
> > whatever qemu created, so seabios has nothing interesting to tell
> > to qemu.
> 
> SeaBIOS can add boot devices as part of option ROM init, as was
> mentioned. QEMU may or may not be involved in this, but in any case
> the complete BBS must then be implemented also in QEMU..
> 
ROMs are not appear from nowhere. They are either loaded from pci card
or added by QEMU. In both cases QEMU is well aware about entity that can
boot.

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			Gleb.



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