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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kvmtool] arm: Allow command line for firmware
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:20:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190130182010.GE18558@fuggles.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190125154308.185131-1-andre.przywara@arm.com>

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 03:43:08PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> When loading a firmware instead of a kernel, we can still pass on any
> *user-provided* command line, as /chosen/bootargs is a generic device tree
> feature. We just need to make sure to not pass our mangled-for-Linux
> version.
> 
> This allows to run "firmware" images which make use of a command line,
> still are not Linux kernels, like kvm-unit-tests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
> ---
> Hi Will,
> 
> this goes on top of Julien's firmware series (which did not yet appear
> on kernel.org?)
> This fixes an issue with some kvm-unit-tests support. [1]

Does kvm-unit-tests break if we pass the modified command line? I'm wary of
passing something different depending on whether the payload is firmware or
kernel, because there's a pretty fine line between the two (and the firmware
may even just forward the thing on to the kernel it loads).

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-25 15:43 [PATCH kvmtool] arm: Allow command line for firmware Andre Przywara
2019-01-30 18:20 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2019-01-31 13:07   ` Andrew Jones
2019-01-31 13:48     ` Andre Przywara
2019-01-31 13:40   ` Julien Thierry

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