[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-14 Thread Alexander Graf
Am 13.11.2009 um 11:59 schrieb Juan Quintela : Alexander Graf wrote: On 13.11.2009, at 01:48, Glauber Costa wrote: Because that would mean I'd have to deal with it in the code later on and I don't see the point of writing code that's not in the load/save cycle because of limitations there.

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-13 Thread Juan Quintela
Alexander Graf wrote: > On 13.11.2009, at 01:48, Glauber Costa wrote: > Because that would mean I'd have to deal with it in the code later on > and I don't see the point of writing code that's not in the load/save > cycle because of limitations there. Hi could you take a look at this one? This

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-12 Thread Alexander Graf
On 13.11.2009, at 01:48, Glauber Costa wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:53:10PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: The fw_cfg interface can only handle up to 16 bits of data for its streams. While that isn't too much of a problem when handling integers, we would like to stream full kernel image

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-12 Thread Glauber Costa
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:53:10PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > The fw_cfg interface can only handle up to 16 bits of data for its streams. > While that isn't too much of a problem when handling integers, we would > like to stream full kernel images over that interface! > > So let's extend it to

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
Alexander Graf wrote: Juan, I'd really love to learn some new voodoo :-). This whole new qdev whatever based save format was supposed to make things like this easy, right? I would've known what to do with the old code ... I think Juan's mentioned something about writing a doc explaining how t

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.11.2009, at 23:22, Anthony Liguori wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: The fw_cfg interface can only handle up to 16 bits of data for its streams. While that isn't too much of a problem when handling integers, we would like to stream full kern

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
Alexander Graf wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: The fw_cfg interface can only handle up to 16 bits of data for its streams. While that isn't too much of a problem when handling integers, we would like to stream full kernel images over that interface! So let's extend

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-11 Thread Alexander Graf
Anthony Liguori wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> The fw_cfg interface can only handle up to 16 bits of data for its >> streams. >> While that isn't too much of a problem when handling integers, we would >> like to stream full kernel images over that interface! >> >> So let's extend it to 32 bit le

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Make fw_cfg interface 32-bit aware

2009-11-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
Alexander Graf wrote: The fw_cfg interface can only handle up to 16 bits of data for its streams. While that isn't too much of a problem when handling integers, we would like to stream full kernel images over that interface! So let's extend it to 32 bit length variables. Signed-off-by: Alexande