Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu-kvm: extboot: Keep variables in RAM

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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 02/19/2010 11:03 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Actually, I'm still in favor of proper (Sea)BIOS support for virtio and
>> scsi, either via the paravirt port 0x405 and its qemu backend or via
>> minimalistic support of the hardware directly in the BIOS. That would
>> free us from all those hooking and unhooking dances at least.
>>
>> Kevin, Anthony, and all others: what is now the merge road map for the
>> bootable scsi/virtio feature?
>>    
> 
> Stefan posted a virtio-blk driver for gPXE.  I like this approach 
> because it's generally useful (gPXE can be used with any BIOS).

Does it allow a unified boot device selection, one menu for them all, no
more "boot=on" workarounds?

> 
> For the LSI SCSI adapter, I'm not really sure the best way forward.  
> Honestly, it's so broken currently, I'm not sure booting really matters.

Well, we are successfully using this "broken" adapter. What is not working?

Jan
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