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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	Andreas Faerber <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] boot: extend get_boot_devices_list() to ignore suffixes
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:55:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5306094B.4010608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392904246-15575-2-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>

Il 20/02/2014 14:50, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> As suffixes do not make sense for sPAPR's device tree and
> there is no way to filter them out on the BusState::get_fw_dev_path
> level, let's add an ability for the external caller to specify
> whether to apply suffixes or not.
>
> We could handle suffixes in SLOF (ignore for now) but this would require
> serious rework in the node opening code in SLOF which has no obvious
> benefit for the currently emulated sPAPR machine.

For the record, the commit message is not entirely correct in presenting 
the situation.  QEMU *does not care in any way* of benefits for the 
currently emulated sPAPR machine.  The benefit would be to QEMU in 
having simpler code.

You just got a wildcard because Forth is scary. :)

Paolo

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> ---
> Changes:
> v4:
> * changed commit message about not having plans in SLOF rework as it is scary :)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-20 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20 13:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/6] spapr: bootindex support Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] boot: extend get_boot_devices_list() to ignore suffixes Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 13:55   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-02-20 14:03     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 14:05       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-13  3:32         ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-13  8:00           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-20 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/6] qdev: introduce FWPathProvider interface Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-12 18:07   ` Andreas Färber
2014-03-12 18:15     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-12 23:02     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-12 23:38       ` Andreas Färber
2014-03-13  1:03         ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-13  3:40     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/6] vl: allow customizing the class of /machine Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 13:58   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 10:34     ` Andreas Färber
2014-02-27 10:41       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 14:39         ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-02-27 14:59           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 15:04             ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-02-28 15:03               ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-28 15:05                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-28 15:08                   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-28 15:57                     ` Andreas Färber
2014-02-28 16:35                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-03 10:04                       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-21  3:04   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-21 10:30     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27  2:35       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-27  7:44         ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-27 11:47           ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-27 13:38             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-20 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/6] spapr-llan: add to boot device list Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 5/6] spapr-vio: fix firmware names Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 6/6] spapr: define interface to fix device pathname Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 13:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/6] spapr: bootindex support Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-20 14:05   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-20 14:06     ` Paolo Bonzini

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