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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] fw/pci: Allocate IGD stolen
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, seabios@seabios.org, allen.m.kay@intel.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 09:29:26PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I can build a generic interface to pass addresses
> allocated by bios back to QEMU. It looks like this would
> be useful for other purposes as well.  Interested?

If this is undertaken, I suggest extending fw_cfg to support "writable
files" instead of introducing a whole new interface.

-Kevin