From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58680 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqV5R-0003Xo-2j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:34:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqV5J-0004pu-Ff for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:34:14 -0500 Received: from tx2ehsobe001.messaging.microsoft.com ([65.55.88.11]:24648 helo=TX2EHSOBE001.bigfish.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqV5J-0004pZ-Ay for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:34:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4F21AAAC.1020209@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:34:04 -0600 From: Scott Wood MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <75020d27a76d9b884a9c40d8c6ec81b525ab96a9.1327302677.git.peter.crosthwaite@petalogix.com> <4F1E5C49.4030604@suse.de> <4F1EF705.30900@weilnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <4F1EF705.30900@weilnetz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/7] vl.c: added -kerndtb option List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: Peter Maydell , monstr@monstr.eu, duyl@xilinx.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Peter A. G. Crosthwaite" , edgar.iglesias@petalogix.com, linnj@xilinx.com, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= , john.williams@petalogix.com On 01/24/2012 12:23 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > I'd prefer a different solution. As far as I have understood, > the dtb is only useful with a kernel, so it could be handled > as an optional attribute to the -kernel parameter: > > -kernel IMAGE[,dtb=DTB] > > Of course the same applies to -append, but that's a different issue. -initrd as well. This would mean you couldn't have a comma in a filename (shouldn't come up often, but still ugly). -Scott