On 10/18/2010 05:09 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
On 10/15/10 23:05, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 10/15/2010 03:51 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
PCI device with different device ids sometimes share
the same rom code. Only the device id and the checksum
differ in a boot rom for such devices.
BTW, SeaBIOS doesn't reject ROMs when they're loaded via rombar, only
when they're loaded via romfile.
SeaBIOS rejects them when loaded from the rom bar and doesn't reject
them when loaded via fw_cfg.
What I meant was, rombar=0 in qdev. Sometimes my fingers don't work the
same way my brain does :-)
Using the rom bar is the prefered way though, fw_cfg is only there for
compatibility with older versions.
Maybe it's better to use fw_cfg to explicitly tell SeaBIOS to ignore the
PCI device id in the rom header for a certain device?
Patching the rom is fine IMHO. Why create + use a separate
communication path when we can use a much simpler approach?
How does this interact with PCI device passthrough?
We clearly can't patch in that case whereas if we had a hint to SeaBIOS,
it would still work.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
cheers,
Gerd
