Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 03/18/15 21:06, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:49:50PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

[snip]

>> Which reminds me:  Going for QemuOpts would be very useful (gives
>> -readconfig support), and it would solve the init order issue too.
>> Instead of having your custom storage you just let QemuOpts parse and
>> store the command line switch, then process them after fw_cfg device
>> initialization.

[snip]

> So basically, you're saying "don't process 'opts' here with qemu_opt_get(),
> just stash them as is, then process them later" ?  (e.g. during
> fw_cfg_options_insert() below) ?
> 
> Is there an existing example where that's currently done that I use
> for inspiration?
> 
> Laszlo's suggestion was almost the opposite of this, i.e. allocate
> memory for all the blobs during option processing, them just call
> fw_cfg_add_file() during fw_cfg_options_insert().

I was wrong, simply. :) I forgot about -readconfig completely.

(I do recall that I had been annoyed earlier by some option not working
as expected with -readconfig; perhaps -smp? Not sure.)

Meta:

You should always take my qemu reviews with a grain of salt. They're
mostly good for pulling in reviewers who know what they're doing. ;)

I reviewed your v1 quickly for two reasons:
- I didn't want you to regress fw_cfg accidentally, especially code I
  wrote, or code UEFI depends on.
- I'm a nice person (lol) and wanted to get the review gears rolling
  for you (see above).

Cheers,
Laszlo