> > Couldn't we just have an option rom for the SCSI controller? The same way > > the VGABIOS is a rewrite of a VGA BIOS for the Cirrus Logic... > > Of course we could, but it should not be extboot, but proper scsi driver. > gpxe has src/drivers/block/scsi.c so may be it already supports qemu scsi > device?
IIRC it only supports iSCSI. You'd need to add the LSI HBA driver and possibly parallel SCSI transport bits. In practice I'd imagine the SCSI parts to be pretty straightforward. A bios driver can ignore most of the fancy bits (e.g. TCQ) that a full featured OS driver has to worry about. Paul
