Re: passing smbios table from qemu

[Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com>]

On 01/14/2014 10:23 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 10:21 -0500, Ross Philipson wrote:
>> On 01/13/2014 06:31 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] passing smbios table from qemu"):
>>>> On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:32 -0500, Ross Philipson wrote:
>>>>> On 01/10/2014 10:03 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>>> Fitting in with libxl proper would require the API to look a certain way
>>>>>> (take a context etc), so perhaps libxlu would be more appropriate,
>>>>>> alongside the disk syntax parser etc?
>>>>>
>>>>> Possibly. I looked at that back then (and today again) and it seemed to
>>>>> all be related to parsing things into XLU_Config objects. I guess I did
>>>>> not have a good feel for what libxlu was supposed to be. If it is
>>>>> supposed to be a generic library of auxiliary toolstack functionality
>>>>> then I think it would be a good place.
>>>>
>>>> I think that (aux functionality) was the intention -- the fact that it
>>>> is all parsing stuff right now is just a coincidence.
>>
>> Ok then libxlu sounds like a reasonable place for this. I will submit a
>> patch.
>
> Thanks. It's probably a bit late to squeeze this in for 4.4, so you've
> got a little while until 4.5 development opens.

Right, I will shoot for 4.5 then - thanks.

>
> Ian.
>
>


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Ross Philipson