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Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:36:58 +0100 |
On 19 October 2012 15:21, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Gibson <address@hidden> writes:
>> That's true to an extent. However, I vehemently disagree that it's
>> arbitrary which one gets the new option. Neither -boot nor bootindex=
>> alter any persistent data now and they should not suddenly start doing
>> so.
>
> That's not true.
>
> For the PC, -boot modifies the CMOS memory. If we persisted CMOS, then
> -boot would cause a persistent modification in the boot order.
That would be a bug you'd need to fix if we persisted CMOS :-)
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, David Gibson, 2012/10/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, Anthony Liguori, 2012/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, David Gibson, 2012/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2012/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, Alexander Graf, 2012/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, David Gibson, 2012/10/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, Alexander Graf, 2012/10/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, Anthony Liguori, 2012/10/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2012/10/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nvram and boot order, Blue Swirl, 2012/10/19