On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:50:49AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 18/10/2012 01:32, Kevin O'Connor ha scritto: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:23:42PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> This series adds a shortcut for network boot, similar to what is present > >> on bare-metal machines. F11 will prioritize BCV/BEV entries for network > >> devices over all the other items of the boot list. > >> > >> After testing with a more recent QEMU I found that it deploys a BCV ROM > >> that breaks network boot. So this series has two extra patches that > >> track the PCI class for boot entries; this is then used to filter boot > >> entries for network boot. A better choice of priorities for BCV and > >> BEV is also implemented (patch 3). > >> > >> After Peter Stuge's prod, I reorganized interactive_bootmenu to use a > >> switch statement, and split the reindentation away in a separate patch. > > > > Hi Paolo, > > > > Can you give a high-level overview of why this functionality is > > needed? For QEMU users, wouldn't they just add "-boot net" to their > > command line? > > Good question. :) This came in as a feature request from a RH customer, > and it took a while to understand that this was the feature they wanted. > My only guess is the user is someone else than the administrator, so > they cannot control the QEMU command-line.
Okay. I guess hitting F12 and then selecting the network card was too complex. :-) > I'm not sure how much of this code is used by Coreboot, but I figured > this would be somewhat useful on bare-metal systems too. It's the same menu on coreboot. Indeed, having the ability to select a boot device is critical when working on real hardware. Thanks. -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
