[Fwd: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option]

[J. Mayer]

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> From: J. Mayer <address@hidden>
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> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Qemu-devel] RFC: BIOS filename option
> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:11:55 +0200
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a proposal to allow the user to select a BIOS file name on the
> command line. The goal is mainly to ease debug, for example when I want
> to try to run a firmware comming from a real machine instead of the
> default one.
> The only change is to add a -bios <filename> option, use the given file
> if any or use the default if none were given.
> Maybe the options would be better named as -biosfile.... Or it maybe a
> good idea to give a full path, not to concatenate the given name with
> the bios_dir prefix...
> Some may find this option is not so useful, as one can specify a
> directory to find the target BIOS. But I feel more confortable keeping
> all BIOS images together at the same place.
> 
> Please comment.

Hum, seems like I forgot to attach the patch. Here it is...

-- 
J. Mayer <address@hidden>
Never organized

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