On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 05:50:03PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > >>> Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]> > >>> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <[email protected]> > >>> Reviewd-by: Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]> > >>> --- > >>> > >>> 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).
That's right, and rebasing is what I had planned. Plus, I'll need to figure out how to write a guest-side kernel driver which works with both DT and ACPI, builds on all affected architectures, and hopefully doesn't need to use *too* many ifdefs in the process :) Cheers, --Gabriel
