Il 01/10/2013 17:12, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> > I just need some way to have different default firmware images for >> > different pc machine type versions. Requests to considering other >> > firmware loading needs (such as the two images needed for sPAPR) when >> > doing this is reasonable. Blaming me for how inconistent qemu's >> > firmware loading is today is not ok. > You're defining new command line syntax -- it seems reasonable > to think about what it ought to actually mean rather than just > saying "it should mean the same collection of random stuff > that -bios means". If you're going to do that you should just stick > with -bios...
What it ought to mean could be "the ROM that bootstraps the machine by loading stuff from a drive (could be NAND, SD or a hardware component such as virtio/IDE/SCSI)". But most machines sidestep this by loading the kernel directly in RAM. Paolo
