[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2 0/8 RFC] boot order specification

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:40:01PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> This is current sate of the patch series for people to comment on.
> I tried to use open firmware naming scheme to specify device path names.
> 
> The patch series produce names like these:
> for pci machine:
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden
> /address@hidden/address@hidden,1/address@hidden:0
> /address@hidden/address@hidden,1/address@hidden:1
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden
> 
> for isa machine:
> adding '/isa/address@hidden/address@hidden' at index 2
> adding '/isa/address@hidden/address@hidden' at index 1
> adding '/isa/address@hidden/address@hidden:0' at index 0
> adding '/isa/address@hidden/address@hidden:1' at index 3

Hi Gleb,

How will USB drives be identified?

I'm not sure how SeaBIOS will be able to line up something like
"/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden" to an optionrom BEV.  Also, if
there is an optionrom with BCVs (eg, a scsi card), I'm not sure how
that would that would be identified.

-Kevin