Re: extboot.bin required in git

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/02/2009 05:34 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Hi Marcelo,
>>
>> qemu-kvm's installation (0.11-rc as well as git head) is currently
>> broken /wrt extboot.bin. Please check some proper binary in as
>> pc-bios/extboot.bin.
>>    
> 
> It's built at runtime.  Why check in a binary?

First of all, it's a qemu policy (AFAIK): try to build the rom, use
shipped version if that doesn't work. And second, we (more precisely
qemu) does not seem to use the optionrom output for installation yet.
The latter is likely subject to change, but the former is expected to stay.

Jan

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