On 11/10/07, J. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 00:43 +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > On 09/11/2007, J. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What about this patch ? Is there any remark ? Is it to be applied ? > > > > Yes, I'm also in favour. Regarding the machines that boot off flash, I > > will try to come up with some logical synatx. The Palm T|E board can > > boot off the ROM and it needs no kernel image in such case. Currently > > I was using "-option-rom rom.image -boot n" for this, as a hack, next > > week I should again have some time to play with it. > > What I do is use the -L / -bios options to specify a boot ROM, the same > way we can do for other machines. Maybe this scheme is not applicable to > all machines (?). > The only ennoying thing I see is that I have to give qemu a fake disk > image because qemu never wants to run if it has no bloc device > specified, which is a pity when the target machine do not have any bloc > device available.
Also Sparc machines have supported diskless configuration for ages. I think this restriction should be limited to x86. The patch looks fine. On Sparc, the boot device string can be much more complex than what can be specified with just a single letter. This is still useful shortcut, the full path can be provided with -prom-env switch.
