Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Qemu boot device precedence over nvram boot-device setting

[Alexander Graf]

On 05.10.2012, at 11:12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 02:43 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> We should also be able to get the raw bootindex values for a qdev,
>>> yes?  I was thinking we could instead copy those values into the
>>> device tree when we populate it.  The trouble is that we don't
>>> actually generate (in qemu) nodes for individual disks under a
>> vscsi,
>>> or for individual PCI devices under the host bridge (that's done by
>>> SLOF).  Still thinking...
>> 
>> Well. You can track it down to the device level and you know the drive
>> index. Maybe you could be clever if you had a device property that
>> contains the drive index and boot index to it?
> 
> You can but it's hard... eventually we'll do it but it will take some
> time. In the meantime, a patch allowing us know whether -boot was
> specified at all or not would be handy to make things work as expected
> in the most common cases.

Sure, no objections there :). See my reply on the patch.

Alex

> 
> Avik & Nikunj are going to send one if not already...
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
>