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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] fw_cfg: insert string blobs via qemu
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, jordan.l.justen@intel.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, Marc =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mar=ED?= <markmb@redhat.com>

On Mi, 2015-10-14 at 16:22 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Paolo,
> 
> On 09/29/15 18:29, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> > Allow users to provide custom fw_cfg blobs with ascii string
> > payloads specified directly on the qemu command line.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
> > Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
> > Reviewd-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > New since v3:  s/content/string/g   for the option name, at Gerd's
> > 		suggestion (to potentially allow for additional content
> > 		types directly on the command line, should the need arise
> > 		at a future date)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   --Gabriel
> > 
> >  docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  qemu-options.hx       |  7 ++++++-
> >  vl.c                  | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> I'm sure you're going to want to give me a hug for bringing this up, but
> can you please pick this up? O:-)
> 
> Or maybe Peter can apply it directly?

I guess I'll go prepare a fw_cfg pull request, probably tomorrow.
There also is the fw_cfg_dma series from Marc ...

While being at it: anything else which is ready?  The fw_cfg acpi
patches seem still to be on discussion still ...

cheers,
  Gerd