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x86: doc: Document the -cdrom issues I ran into

Message ID 20230901120822.1.Ic1e930902ae178ecee565ab48b9579482d03056c@changeid
State Accepted
Commit 9804e572cf1ade7a0aae000740e6159a1e5394fd
Delegated to: Bin Meng
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Series x86: doc: Document the -cdrom issues I ran into | expand

Commit Message

Simon Glass Sept. 1, 2023, 6:08 p.m. UTC
Add a note about using -cdrom with QEMU.

Suggested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng@tinylab.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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 doc/board/emulation/qemu-x86.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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Bin Meng Sept. 19, 2023, 8:20 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Sep 2, 2023 at 2:08 AM Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Add a note about using -cdrom with QEMU.
>
> Suggested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng@tinylab.org>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> ---
>
>  doc/board/emulation/qemu-x86.rst | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng@tinylab.org>

applied to u-boot-86/next, thanks!
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diff --git a/doc/board/emulation/qemu-x86.rst b/doc/board/emulation/qemu-x86.rst
index 15f56b6bc70..c604e42990e 100644
--- a/doc/board/emulation/qemu-x86.rst
+++ b/doc/board/emulation/qemu-x86.rst
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@  Linux is selected from grub, e.g. with `debian-12.1.0-i386-netinst.iso`::
 The bochs video driver also seems to cause problems before the OS is able to
 show a display.
 
+The QEMU `-cdrom` option is intended to work with the original ISO-format
+images, not the recently invented ISOHybrid image.
+
 Finally, the use of `-M accel=kvm` is intended to use the native CPU's
 virtual-machine features to accelerate operation, but this causes U-Boot to hang
 when jumping 64-bit mode, at least on AMD machines. This may be a bug in U-Boot