On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:21:59PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > So if we agree on using environment variables to pass options to > qemu-user we next need to agree on how to name the options. > The following commandline arguments exist (in order as they are checked > in linux-user/main.c) and I shortly described and proposed a name for > the environment variable in the same line. > -d (activate log) - QEMU_LOG > -D (logfile) - QEMU_LOGFILE > -E (set target env variabe) - QEMU_SET_ENV > -U (unset target env variabe) - QEMU_UNSET_ENV > -0 (set target argv[0]) - QEMU_ARGV0 > -s (stack size) - QEMU_STACK_SIZE > -L (elf interpreter prefix) - QEMU_LD_PREFIX > -p (page size) - QEMU_PAGESIZE > -g (listen for gdb on port) - QEMU_GDB > -r (uname) - QEMU_UNAME > -cpu (cpu model) - QEMU_CPU > -B (guest base) - QEMU_GUEST_BASE > -R (reserved virtual address) - QEMU_RESERVED_VA > -drop-ld-preload - QEMU_DROP_LD_PRELOAD
This is a legacy option that could be removed already. The -U LD_PRELOAD replaces this option. The only known user of this option (scratchbox) has migrated -U LD_PRELOAD years ago. > -singlestep - QEMU_SINGLESTEP > -strace - QEMU_STRACE > also, there already is the QEMU_STRACE environment variable which could > be incorporated into the solution? Else names look good to me. > the -E and -U options can be specified several times so the environment > variables should be able to receive a list - maybe in the getsubopt(3) > style? getsubopt would mean that passing enviroment variable contents with commas wouldn't work. Perhaps that would still be an acceptable limitation. Riku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
