On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 01:27:24AM -0700, Jordan Justen wrote: > The isapc machine with seabios currently requires the BIOS region > to be read/write memory rather than read-only memory. > > KVM currently cannot support the BIOS as a ROM region, but qemu > in non-KVM mode can. Based on this, isapc machine currently only > works with KVM. > > To work-around this isapc issue, this change avoids marking the > BIOS as readonly for isapc.
How about changing the code to always make the ROM read/write (instead of doing it only on isapc). Currently, if the rom is marked as read-only, then SeaBIOS makes it read/write as the first thing it does. So, making it read-only doesn't really serve any purpose. -Kevin
