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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Expose fw_cfg
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, rene@exactcode.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 6/17/09, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
> Multiboot passes options to the option rom using the fw_cfg device.
>  Right now, that device is local to the bochs_bios_init function.
>
>  Let's change that and expose it to env, so everyone may put data
>  in there.

Env is a wrong place for device data.