On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: > From: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> > > Currently, we preload option roms into the option rom space in memory. This > prevents DDIM from functioning correctly which severely limits the number > of roms we can support. > > This patch introduces a pci_add_option_rom() which registers the > PCI_ROM_ADDRESS bar which points to our option rom. It also converts over > the cirrus vga adapter, the rtl8139, virtio, and the e1000 to use this > new mechanism.
This means that the VGA roms are now visible for all targets, not just when rom_enable_driver_roms is true. I'm not opposing this, but it may create regressions.
