* [PATCH v2 1/4] cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism
2022-02-26 12:45 [PATCH v2 0/4] cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism Akihiko Odaki
@ 2022-02-26 12:45 ` Akihiko Odaki
2022-02-26 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] datadir: Use " Akihiko Odaki
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From: Akihiko Odaki @ 2022-02-26 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Peter Maydell, Jason Wang, qemu-devel, Programmingkid,
Gerd Hoffmann, Akihiko Odaki
Developers often run QEMU without installing. The bundle mechanism
allows to look up files which should be present in installation even in
such a situation.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
---
include/qemu/cutils.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
util/cutils.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 52 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/qemu/cutils.h b/include/qemu/cutils.h
index 320543950c4..98ff59e38e3 100644
--- a/include/qemu/cutils.h
+++ b/include/qemu/cutils.h
@@ -209,6 +209,25 @@ int qemu_pstrcmp0(const char **str1, const char **str2);
*/
char *get_relocated_path(const char *dir);
+/**
+ * find_bundle:
+ * @path: Relative path
+ *
+ * Returns a path for the specified directory or file bundled in QEMU. It uses
+ * the directory of the running executable as the prefix first. See
+ * get_relocated_path() for the details. The next candidate is "qemu-bundle"
+ * directory in the directory of the running executable. "qemu-bundle"
+ * directory is typically present in the build tree.
+ *
+ * The returned string should be freed by the caller.
+ *
+ * Returns: a path that can access the bundle, or NULL if no matching bundle
+ * exists.
+ */
+char *find_bundle(const char *path);
+
+void list_bundle_candidates(const char *path);
+
static inline const char *yes_no(bool b)
{
return b ? "yes" : "no";
diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c
index c9b91e7535a..b4e4cda71c8 100644
--- a/util/cutils.c
+++ b/util/cutils.c
@@ -1057,3 +1057,36 @@ char *get_relocated_path(const char *dir)
}
return g_string_free(result, false);
}
+
+static const char * const bundle_formats[] = {
+ "%s" G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S ".." G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "%s",
+ "%s" G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "qemu-bundle" G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "%s"
+};
+
+char *find_bundle(const char *path)
+{
+ const char *dir = qemu_get_exec_dir();
+ char *candidate;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(bundle_formats); i++) {
+ candidate = g_strdup_printf(bundle_formats[i], dir, path);
+ if (access(candidate, R_OK) == 0) {
+ return candidate;
+ }
+ g_free(candidate);
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+void list_bundle_candidates(const char *path)
+{
+ const char *dir = qemu_get_exec_dir();
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(bundle_formats); i++) {
+ printf(bundle_formats[i], dir, path);
+ putc('\n', stdout);
+ }
+}
--
2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)
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2022-02-26 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] " Akihiko Odaki
@ 2022-02-26 12:45 ` Akihiko Odaki
2022-02-26 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] ui/icons: " Akihiko Odaki
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From: Akihiko Odaki @ 2022-02-26 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Peter Maydell, Jason Wang, qemu-devel, Programmingkid,
Gerd Hoffmann, Akihiko Odaki
bundle mechanism and softmmu/datadir.c provides some overlapped
functionality. Use bundle mechanism in softmmu/datadir.c to remove the
redundancy.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
---
configure | 2 ++
meson.build | 2 +-
softmmu/datadir.c | 35 ++++++++++++-----------------------
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c56ed53ee36..fda1a35cbc0 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3089,6 +3089,8 @@ for f in $LINKS ; do
fi
done
+symlink ../../pc-bios qemu-bundle/share/qemu
+
(for i in $cross_cc_vars; do
export $i
done
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 8df40bfac4d..a2c987b41d6 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ endif
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_BINDIR', get_option('prefix') / get_option('bindir'))
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_PREFIX', get_option('prefix'))
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_confdir)
-config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_datadir)
+config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_DATADIR', qemu_datadir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_DESKTOPDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_desktopdir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_FIRMWAREPATH', get_option('qemu_firmwarepath'))
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR', get_option('prefix') / get_option('libexecdir'))
diff --git a/softmmu/datadir.c b/softmmu/datadir.c
index 504c4665bed..2d8366039d9 100644
--- a/softmmu/datadir.c
+++ b/softmmu/datadir.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ char *qemu_find_file(int type, const char *name)
int i;
const char *subdir;
char *buf;
+ char *bundle;
/* Try the name as a straight path first */
if (access(name, R_OK) == 0) {
@@ -62,6 +63,16 @@ char *qemu_find_file(int type, const char *name)
}
g_free(buf);
}
+
+ bundle = g_strdup_printf("%s/%s%s",
+ CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_DATADIR, subdir, name);
+ buf = find_bundle(bundle);
+ g_free(bundle);
+ if (buf) {
+ trace_load_file(name, buf);
+ return buf;
+ }
+
return NULL;
}
@@ -84,26 +95,6 @@ void qemu_add_data_dir(char *path)
data_dir[data_dir_idx++] = path;
}
-/*
- * Find a likely location for support files using the location of the binary.
- * When running from the build tree this will be "$bindir/pc-bios".
- * Otherwise, this is CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR (possibly relocated).
- *
- * The caller must use g_free() to free the returned data when it is
- * no longer required.
- */
-static char *find_datadir(void)
-{
- g_autofree char *dir = NULL;
-
- dir = g_build_filename(qemu_get_exec_dir(), "pc-bios", NULL);
- if (g_file_test(dir, G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR)) {
- return g_steal_pointer(&dir);
- }
-
- return get_relocated_path(CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR);
-}
-
void qemu_add_default_firmwarepath(void)
{
char **dirs;
@@ -115,9 +106,6 @@ void qemu_add_default_firmwarepath(void)
qemu_add_data_dir(get_relocated_path(dirs[i]));
}
g_strfreev(dirs);
-
- /* try to find datadir relative to the executable path */
- qemu_add_data_dir(find_datadir());
}
void qemu_list_data_dirs(void)
@@ -126,4 +114,5 @@ void qemu_list_data_dirs(void)
for (i = 0; i < data_dir_idx; i++) {
printf("%s\n", data_dir[i]);
}
+ list_bundle_candidates(CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_DATADIR);
}
--
2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)
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@ 2022-02-26 12:45 ` Akihiko Odaki
2022-02-26 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] net: " Akihiko Odaki
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From: Akihiko Odaki @ 2022-02-26 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Peter Maydell, Jason Wang, qemu-devel, Programmingkid,
Gerd Hoffmann, Akihiko Odaki
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
---
configure | 10 ++++++++++
meson.build | 3 +--
ui/cocoa.m | 20 +++++++++++---------
ui/gtk.c | 8 +++++---
ui/sdl2.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
5 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index fda1a35cbc0..80d36a85bc5 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3089,6 +3089,16 @@ for f in $LINKS ; do
fi
done
+for icon_extension in bmp png ; do
+ for icon_file in $source_path/ui/icons/qemu_*.$icon_extension ; do
+ icon_basename=${icon_file%.$icon_extension}
+ icon_name=${icon_basename#$source_path/ui/icons/qemu_}
+ icon_dir=qemu-bundle/share/icons/hicolor/$icon_name/apps
+ symlink $icon_file $icon_dir/qemu.$icon_extension
+ done
+done
+
+symlink $source_path/ui/icons/qemu.svg qemu-bundle/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qemu.svg
symlink ../../pc-bios qemu-bundle/share/qemu
(for i in $cross_cc_vars; do
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a2c987b41d6..f7e64a74545 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1472,8 +1472,7 @@ config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_c
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_DATADIR', qemu_datadir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_DESKTOPDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_desktopdir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_FIRMWAREPATH', get_option('qemu_firmwarepath'))
-config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR', get_option('prefix') / get_option('libexecdir'))
-config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_ICONDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_icondir)
+config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_ICONDIR', qemu_icondir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALEDIR', get_option('prefix') / get_option('localedir'))
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALSTATEDIR', get_option('prefix') / get_option('localstatedir'))
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_MODDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_moddir)
diff --git a/ui/cocoa.m b/ui/cocoa.m
index a8f1cdaf926..e5e49c50fbb 100644
--- a/ui/cocoa.m
+++ b/ui/cocoa.m
@@ -1477,15 +1477,17 @@ - (void)make_about_window
NSRect picture_rect = NSMakeRect(x, y, picture_width, picture_height);
/* Make the picture of QEMU */
- NSImageView *picture_view = [[NSImageView alloc] initWithFrame:
- picture_rect];
- char *qemu_image_path_c = get_relocated_path(CONFIG_QEMU_ICONDIR "/hicolor/512x512/apps/qemu.png");
- NSString *qemu_image_path = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:qemu_image_path_c];
- g_free(qemu_image_path_c);
- NSImage *qemu_image = [[NSImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:qemu_image_path];
- [picture_view setImage: qemu_image];
- [picture_view setImageScaling: NSImageScaleProportionallyUpOrDown];
- [superView addSubview: picture_view];
+ char *qemu_image_path_c = find_bundle(CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_ICONDIR "/hicolor/512x512/apps/qemu.png");
+ if (qemu_image_path_c) {
+ NSString *qemu_image_path = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:qemu_image_path_c];
+ g_free(qemu_image_path_c);
+ NSImageView *picture_view = [[NSImageView alloc] initWithFrame:
+ picture_rect];
+ NSImage *qemu_image = [[NSImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:qemu_image_path];
+ [picture_view setImage: qemu_image];
+ [picture_view setImageScaling: NSImageScaleProportionallyUpOrDown];
+ [superView addSubview: picture_view];
+ }
/* Make the name label */
NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
diff --git a/ui/gtk.c b/ui/gtk.c
index a8567b9ddc8..a86d1c126f0 100644
--- a/ui/gtk.c
+++ b/ui/gtk.c
@@ -2296,9 +2296,11 @@ static void gtk_display_init(DisplayState *ds, DisplayOptions *opts)
s->opts = opts;
theme = gtk_icon_theme_get_default();
- dir = get_relocated_path(CONFIG_QEMU_ICONDIR);
- gtk_icon_theme_prepend_search_path(theme, dir);
- g_free(dir);
+ dir = find_bundle(CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_ICONDIR);
+ if (dir) {
+ gtk_icon_theme_prepend_search_path(theme, dir);
+ g_free(dir);
+ }
g_set_prgname("qemu");
s->window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
diff --git a/ui/sdl2.c b/ui/sdl2.c
index 46a252d7d9d..9d1f6e74cb5 100644
--- a/ui/sdl2.c
+++ b/ui/sdl2.c
@@ -893,15 +893,19 @@ static void sdl2_display_init(DisplayState *ds, DisplayOptions *o)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SDL_IMAGE
- dir = get_relocated_path(CONFIG_QEMU_ICONDIR "/hicolor/128x128/apps/qemu.png");
- icon = IMG_Load(dir);
+ dir = find_bundle(CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_ICONDIR "/hicolor/128x128/apps/qemu.png");
+ if (dir) {
+ icon = IMG_Load(dir);
+ }
#else
/* Load a 32x32x4 image. White pixels are transparent. */
- dir = get_relocated_path(CONFIG_QEMU_ICONDIR "/hicolor/32x32/apps/qemu.bmp");
- icon = SDL_LoadBMP(dir);
- if (icon) {
- uint32_t colorkey = SDL_MapRGB(icon->format, 255, 255, 255);
- SDL_SetColorKey(icon, SDL_TRUE, colorkey);
+ dir = find_bundle(CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_ICONDIR "/hicolor/32x32/apps/qemu.bmp");
+ if (dir) {
+ icon = SDL_LoadBMP(dir);
+ if (icon) {
+ uint32_t colorkey = SDL_MapRGB(icon->format, 255, 255, 255);
+ SDL_SetColorKey(icon, SDL_TRUE, colorkey);
+ }
}
#endif
g_free(dir);
--
2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)
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@ 2022-02-26 12:45 ` Akihiko Odaki
2022-02-27 16:23 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-02-26 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] cutils: Introduce " Peter Maydell
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From: Akihiko Odaki @ 2022-02-26 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Peter Maydell, Jason Wang, qemu-devel, Programmingkid,
Gerd Hoffmann, Akihiko Odaki
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
---
configure | 1 +
include/net/net.h | 2 +-
meson.build | 1 +
net/tap.c | 6 +++++-
qemu-options.hx | 4 ++--
5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 80d36a85bc5..63df8f5886e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3100,6 +3100,7 @@ done
symlink $source_path/ui/icons/qemu.svg qemu-bundle/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qemu.svg
symlink ../../pc-bios qemu-bundle/share/qemu
+symlink ../../qemu-bridge-helper qemu-bundle/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
(for i in $cross_cc_vars; do
export $i
diff --git a/include/net/net.h b/include/net/net.h
index 523136c7acb..4a5ed27a4b7 100644
--- a/include/net/net.h
+++ b/include/net/net.h
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ NetClientState *net_hub_port_find(int hub_id);
#define DEFAULT_NETWORK_SCRIPT CONFIG_SYSCONFDIR "/qemu-ifup"
#define DEFAULT_NETWORK_DOWN_SCRIPT CONFIG_SYSCONFDIR "/qemu-ifdown"
-#define DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR "/qemu-bridge-helper"
+#define DEFAULT_BUNDLE_BRIDGE_HELPER CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_HELPERDIR "/qemu-bridge-helper"
#define DEFAULT_BRIDGE_INTERFACE "br0"
void qdev_set_nic_properties(DeviceState *dev, NICInfo *nd);
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f7e64a74545..95ee0a7c14e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1472,6 +1472,7 @@ config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_c
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_DATADIR', qemu_datadir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_DESKTOPDIR', get_option('prefix') / qemu_desktopdir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_FIRMWAREPATH', get_option('qemu_firmwarepath'))
+config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_HELPERDIR', get_option('libexecdir'))
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_BUNDLE_ICONDIR', qemu_icondir)
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALEDIR', get_option('prefix') / get_option('localedir'))
config_host_data.set_quoted('CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALSTATEDIR', get_option('prefix') / get_option('localstatedir'))
diff --git a/net/tap.c b/net/tap.c
index c5cbeaa7a2b..3225d91ae00 100644
--- a/net/tap.c
+++ b/net/tap.c
@@ -508,7 +508,11 @@ static int net_bridge_run_helper(const char *helper, const char *bridge,
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &mask, &oldmask);
if (!helper) {
- helper = default_helper = get_relocated_path(DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER);
+ helper = default_helper = find_bundle(DEFAULT_BUNDLE_BRIDGE_HELPER);
+ if (!helper) {
+ error_setg(errp, "birdge helper not found");
+ return -1;
+ }
}
if (socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sv) == -1) {
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 094a6c1d7c2..a5c03e2caf3 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2665,7 +2665,7 @@ DEF("netdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_netdev,
" to configure it and 'dfile' (default=" DEFAULT_NETWORK_DOWN_SCRIPT ")\n"
" to deconfigure it\n"
" use '[down]script=no' to disable script execution\n"
- " use network helper 'helper' (default=" DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER ") to\n"
+ " use network helper 'helper' (default=" DEFAULT_BUNDLE_BRIDGE_HELPER ") to\n"
" configure it\n"
" use 'fd=h' to connect to an already opened TAP interface\n"
" use 'fds=x:y:...:z' to connect to already opened multiqueue capable TAP interfaces\n"
@@ -2684,7 +2684,7 @@ DEF("netdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_netdev,
"-netdev bridge,id=str[,br=bridge][,helper=helper]\n"
" configure a host TAP network backend with ID 'str' that is\n"
" connected to a bridge (default=" DEFAULT_BRIDGE_INTERFACE ")\n"
- " using the program 'helper (default=" DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER ")\n"
+ " using the program 'helper (default=" DEFAULT_BUNDLE_BRIDGE_HELPER ")\n"
#endif
#ifdef __linux__
"-netdev l2tpv3,id=str,src=srcaddr,dst=dstaddr[,srcport=srcport][,dstport=dstport]\n"
--
2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)
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@ 2022-02-27 16:23 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé @ 2022-02-27 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Akihiko Odaki
Cc: Peter Maydell, Jason Wang, Gerd Hoffmann, qemu-devel,
Programmingkid
On 26/2/22 13:45, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
> ---
> configure | 1 +
> include/net/net.h | 2 +-
> meson.build | 1 +
> net/tap.c | 6 +++++-
> qemu-options.hx | 4 ++--
> 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/net/tap.c b/net/tap.c
> index c5cbeaa7a2b..3225d91ae00 100644
> --- a/net/tap.c
> +++ b/net/tap.c
> @@ -508,7 +508,11 @@ static int net_bridge_run_helper(const char *helper, const char *bridge,
> sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &mask, &oldmask);
>
> if (!helper) {
> - helper = default_helper = get_relocated_path(DEFAULT_BRIDGE_HELPER);
> + helper = default_helper = find_bundle(DEFAULT_BUNDLE_BRIDGE_HELPER);
> + if (!helper) {
> + error_setg(errp, "birdge helper not found");
Typo "bridge".
> + return -1;
> + }
> }
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* Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism
2022-02-26 12:45 [PATCH v2 0/4] cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism Akihiko Odaki
` (3 preceding siblings ...)
2022-02-26 12:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] net: " Akihiko Odaki
@ 2022-02-26 13:02 ` Peter Maydell
2022-02-26 13:09 ` Akihiko Odaki
4 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Peter Maydell @ 2022-02-26 13:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Akihiko Odaki; +Cc: Programmingkid, Jason Wang, qemu-devel, Gerd Hoffmann
On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 12:45, Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Developers often run QEMU without installing. The bundle mechanism
> allows to look up files which should be present in installation even in
> such a situation.
This is supposed to work already -- it is why find_datadir() looks
at a path based on qemu_get_exec_dir() as well as at the
CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR.
If you want to replace that mechanism, you need to explain:
* under what circumstances it isn't working correctly
* why we should replace it with a different design rather
than attempting to fix its bugs
* why the design you're proposing is the right way to do that
The cover letter is a good place to explain that sort of
thing, so people understand why the patchset is doing what
it is before they dive into the detail.
thanks
-- PMM
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@ 2022-02-26 13:09 ` Akihiko Odaki
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From: Akihiko Odaki @ 2022-02-26 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Maydell; +Cc: Programmingkid, Jason Wang, qemu-devel, Gerd Hoffmann
On 2022/02/26 22:02, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 12:45, Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Developers often run QEMU without installing. The bundle mechanism
>> allows to look up files which should be present in installation even in
>> such a situation.
>
> This is supposed to work already -- it is why find_datadir() looks
> at a path based on qemu_get_exec_dir() as well as at the
> CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR.
>
> If you want to replace that mechanism, you need to explain:
> * under what circumstances it isn't working correctly
> * why we should replace it with a different design rather
> than attempting to fix its bugs
> * why the design you're proposing is the right way to do that
>
> The cover letter is a good place to explain that sort of
> thing, so people understand why the patchset is doing what
> it is before they dive into the detail.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
datadir is only for pc-bios and does not include icons and
qemu-bridge-helper. find_bundle is a general mechanism which can be used
for any files to be installed.
Regards,
Akihiko Odaki
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