Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/02/2009 05:51 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> 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. > > Right, but this is qemu-kvm, which doesn't have the same issues > (building an i386 target on non-i386). When extboot is merged into > qemu.git, they can add the build-if-possible-otherwise-use-shipped thing. Well, people may expect qemu-kvm's source tree to build properly also for non-kvm usage. But this is not that important for now. > >> 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. >> > > We do, see 321b6ef91. Ah, I see: some out-of-tree build bug. Will fix. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
