[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 0/6] add F11 shortcut for network boot

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 18/10/2012 01:32, Kevin O'Connor ha scritto:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:23:42PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> This series adds a shortcut for network boot, similar to what is present
>> on bare-metal machines.  F11 will prioritize BCV/BEV entries for network
>> devices over all the other items of the boot list.
>>
>> After testing with a more recent QEMU I found that it deploys a BCV ROM
>> that breaks network boot.  So this series has two extra patches that
>> track the PCI class for boot entries; this is then used to filter boot
>> entries for network boot.  A better choice of priorities for BCV and
>> BEV is also implemented (patch 3).
>>
>> After Peter Stuge's prod, I reorganized interactive_bootmenu to use a
>> switch statement, and split the reindentation away in a separate patch.
> 
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> Can you give a high-level overview of why this functionality is
> needed?  For QEMU users, wouldn't they just add "-boot net" to their
> command line?

Good question. :)  This came in as a feature request from a RH customer,
and it took a while to understand that this was the feature they wanted.
 My only guess is the user is someone else than the administrator, so
they cannot control the QEMU command-line.

I'm not sure how much of this code is used by Coreboot, but I figured
this would be somewhat useful on bare-metal systems too.

Paolo