On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 01:40:19PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mo, 2015-06-01 at 12:44 +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > > On 05/31/2015 09:12 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 06:34:01PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > > >> PXB does not work with unsupported bioses, but should > > >> not interfere with normal OS operation. > > >> We don't ship them anymore, but it's reasonable > > >> to keep the work-around until we update the bios in qemu. > > > > > > We already did, did we not? > > Yes, we did, but Gerd preferred to keep this patch around. > > Adding him to thread. > > seabios bundled with qemu isn't the only possible firmware. > > We have ovmf, coreboot, qboot.
ovmf is especially interesting. Marcel, did you look at what happens with pxb and ovmf? > You might boot with old seabios for > whatever reasons (say bisecting down something). But then you won't have pxb, will you? > IMO qemu should deal > with pxe not being initialized by the firmware in a sensible way, for > robustness reasons. > > cheers, > Gerd >