From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57383) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmknD-0002RW-L7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:50:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmknA-0002L0-CS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:50:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmknA-0002KJ-7G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:50:08 -0400 References: <1443544141-26568-1-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu> <561E650D.3000208@redhat.com> <1444901061.24283.22.camel@redhat.com> From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <561FCB2B.4070403@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:50:03 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1444901061.24283.22.camel@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] fw_cfg: insert string blobs via qemu cmdline List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Peter Maydell , jordan.l.justen@intel.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, =?UTF-8?Q?Marc_Mar=c3=ad?= On 10/15/15 11:24, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > 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 >>> Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek >>> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo >>> Reviewd-by: Laszlo Ersek >>> --- >>> >>> 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 ... Great, thanks! > > While being at it: anything else which is ready? The fw_cfg acpi > patches seem still to be on discussion still ... That's my impression as well, yes. And, in any case, Marc's work and Gabriel's conflict (in context, not in purpose / implementation), so I guess Gabriel will have to rebase (purely because Marc's work has converged first). Thanks! Laszlo > > cheers, > Gerd > >