On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 01:55:54PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: >> From: Julian Pidancet <[email protected]> >> >> This patch enables the VGAHOOKS config option if the BIOS is configured >> for Xen. >> In the Xen VGA passthrough case, the option ROM can be extracted from >> the physical device by hvmloader and pre-deployed for seabios. This >> patch also allows setting up VGA hooks in case the VGA option ROM is >> already deployed by hvmloader. > > This seems a bit odd - if option roms are deployed, how can seabios > reliably find the vga device? Wouldn't it be simpler to just use > seabios in non-optionrom-deployed mode? (After all, wouldn't seabios > still be able to pull the roms even if hvmloader alread did?) >
I think you're right, I just checked the sources of hvmloader in xen-unstable, and it seems the option roms are only pre-deployed when using rombios instead of seabios. So this patch doesn't really make sense after all. -- Julian _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
