Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: specify datadir for qemu-xen build to fix firmware loading

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Olaf Hering wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> # Date 1331924173 -3600
> # Node ID bf1d5778ffd10858b402068b9473e410791ebd07
> # Parent  72e6530b29463f0913af365f5d085d94ff75627c
> tools: specify datadir for qemu-xen build to fix firmware loading
> 
> qemu-xen does currently not find the firmware files, such as
> vgabios-cirrus.bin. The reason is that qemu-xen uses the default prefix
> /usr/local. Use SHAREDIR/xen/qemu-xen as directory so that it can coexist with
> qemu-traditional.

Actually it shouldn't be a problem of firmware files, that QEMU doesn't
load by itself, rather it should be an issue of keymap files.


> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r 72e6530b2946 -r bf1d5778ffd1 tools/Makefile
> --- a/tools/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/Makefile
> @@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ subdir-all-qemu-xen-dir subdir-install-q
>               --extra-ldflags="-L$(XEN_ROOT)/tools/libxc \
>               -L$(XEN_ROOT)/tools/xenstore" \
>               --bindir=$(LIBEXEC) \
> +             --datadir=$(SHAREDIR)/xen/qemu-xen \

I think that $(SHAREDIR)/qemu-xen makes more sense

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