Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH - V3] Port codes from qemu-kvm to support booting from SCSI disk image

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/20/2010 09:09 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> > > Fetch
> > > http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/files/support/ssp/sdms/Bios/lsi_bios.zip 
> > >
> > > -> unzip -> boot with "-option-rom 8xx_64.rom"
> >
> > Maybe we could switch PCIDevice to default romfile to try to
> > <devicename>.rom if none is specified. Since qdev names are unique, this
> > should work well.
>
> Been there, tried that.  It isn't *that* easy.  The PCI ID in the 
> option rom header doesn't match the PCI ID of the emulated lsi, so 
> seabios refuses to load it from the rom bar.

Heh, I was wondering why it didn't work unless I put rombar=0 :-)

Is this fixable in a reasonable way or does PCI ID in the option rom 
represent a much newer device that would trigger issues with guest drivers?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd