Jan Kiszka wrote: > 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. ... it just requires another patch to qemu's Makefile. Well. > >>> 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. And this patch is missing in master, isn't it? 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
