Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] extboot reloaded.

[Anthony Liguori]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Because that's not what you'd use it for. That's what -kernel and
> -initrd are there for.
>
> IMHO having a BIOS backdoor is a good thing in general. If anyone wants
> to destroy their user experience by writing a driver for that in their
> OS, I'm good with that, but let's not expose things twice _to users_ as
> the default case.
>   

N.B.  regardless of whether we have an alternative, simple block 
interface or we have proper drivers in the BIOS, we still have the same 
problem to solve.  We need a way to communicate the desired boot 
priority of each block device.  This becomes quite a bit more 
complicated if we're doing proper drivers in BIOS.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
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