From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, lersek@redhat.com,
marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com, arei.gonglei@huawei.com,
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fw_cfg: ignore suffixes in the bootdevice list dependent on machine class
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:57:13 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180810125713.GS15372@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180810124027.10698-1-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 01:40:27PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> For the older machines (such as Mac and SPARC) the DT nodes representing
> bootdevices for disk nodes are irregular for mainly historical reasons.
>
> Since the majority of bootdevice nodes for these machines either do not have a
> separate disk node or require different (custom) names then it is much easier
> for processing to just disable all suffixes for a particular machine.
>
> Introduce a new ignore_boot_device_suffixes MachineClass property to control
> bootdevice suffix generation, defaulting to false in order to preserve
> compatibility.
>
> Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Thanks, I'm queueing this for 3.1:
https://github.com/ehabkost/qemu.git machine-for-3.1
--
Eduardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-10 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-10 12:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fw_cfg: ignore suffixes in the bootdevice list dependent on machine class Mark Cave-Ayland
2018-08-10 12:57 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2018-08-13 2:04 ` David Gibson
2018-08-10 13:25 ` Laszlo Ersek
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