On 28.04.25 17:12, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
On Thu Apr 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM BST, Anthony PERARD wrote:On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:@@ -1903,10 +1894,7 @@ it may be useful to request a different one, like UEFI.=item B<rombios> -Loads ROMBIOS, a 16-bit x86 compatible BIOS. This is used by default-when B<device_model_version=qemu-xen-traditional>. This is the only BIOS -option supported when B<device_model_version=qemu-xen-traditional>. This is -the BIOS used by all previous Xen versions. +Loads ROMBIOS, a 16-bit x86 compatible BIOS.This option is not valid anymore, libxl will complain with: "qemu-xen does not support bios=rombios."Sounds like a good time to remove bios=rombios altogether and strictly support bios=seabios only (plus the override).
Fine with me. But probably we should NOT drop building RomBIOS, right?
And I have no idea if it can work on not, I just know that XenServer still use RomBIOS with a patched QEMU.Not XCP-ng? Regardless, none of them do so via xl or libxl.
Right. Juergen
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