From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, paul@pwsan.com, matt.fleming@intel.com,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, jordan.l.justen@intel.com,
kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
zajec5@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, leif.lindholm@linaro.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org,
galak@codeaurora.org, mst@redhat.com, hanjun.guo@linaro.org,
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lersek@redhat.com, kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] SysFS driver for QEMU fw_cfg device
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 13:48:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <561263A4.2020304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151005100035.GA19064@leverpostej>
On 05/10/2015 12:00, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Some of the keys in the example look like they'd come from other sources
> (e.g. the *-tables entries), while others look like kernel/bootloader
> configuration options (e.g. etc/boot-fail-wait, bootorder) -- I'm
> concerned about redundancy here.
The redundancy is because the firmware and the bootloader actually
_consume_ these fw_cfg strings to produce the others (the ACPI tables,
the kernel configuration options).
On the other hand, hiding some strings just because they ought to have
been consumed already makes little sense.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-05 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-03 23:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] SysFS driver for QEMU fw_cfg device Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-03 23:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's " Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-04 1:34 ` kbuild test robot
2015-10-06 8:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-10-06 12:53 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-10-06 17:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-06 18:17 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-03 23:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] firmware: use acpi to detect QEMU fw_cfg device for sysfs fw_cfg driver Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-04 7:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-04 20:24 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-04 20:27 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-03 23:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] kobject: export kset_find_obj() for module use Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-03 23:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] firmware: create directory hierarchy for sysfs fw_cfg entries Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-05 10:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] SysFS driver for QEMU fw_cfg device Mark Rutland
2015-10-05 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-10-05 12:23 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-05 12:43 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-05 12:56 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-05 13:21 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-05 12:40 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-05 12:50 ` Peter Maydell
2015-10-05 13:13 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-05 13:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-04 20:48 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-10-05 13:05 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-06 7:18 ` Laszlo Ersek
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