Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] fw_cfg: RFQDN rules, documentation

2016-04-07 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 12:55:16PM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: ... > > > question is, I think: > > > > > > Should we allow QEMU firmware developers to create special settings, > > > to be populated manually by their end-users, that the guest kernel > > > would be prevented from seeing? >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] fw_cfg: RFQDN rules, documentation

2016-04-07 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 04/07/16 18:40, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> Should we allow QEMU firmware developers to create special settings, >> to be populated manually by their end-users, that the guest kernel >> would be prevented from seeing? > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] fw_cfg: RFQDN rules, documentation

2016-04-07 Thread Gabriel L. Somlo
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 07:40:12PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > On 04/07/16 17:38, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > This requires that all -fw_cfg command line users use names of the form > > > opt/RFQDN/: such names are

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] fw_cfg: RFQDN rules, documentation

2016-04-07 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 04/07/16 17:38, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > This requires that all -fw_cfg command line users use names of the form > > opt/RFQDN/: such names are compatible with QEMU 2.4 and 2.5 as well as > > future QEMU versions. > > > > As

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] fw_cfg: RFQDN rules, documentation

2016-04-07 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 04/07/16 17:38, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > This requires that all -fw_cfg command line users use names of the form > opt/RFQDN/: such names are compatible with QEMU 2.4 and 2.5 as well as > future QEMU versions. > > As ability to insert fw_cfg entries in QEMU root is useful for > firmware

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] fw_cfg: RFQDN rules, documentation

2016-04-07 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
This requires that all -fw_cfg command line users use names of the form opt/RFQDN/: such names are compatible with QEMU 2.4 and 2.5 as well as future QEMU versions. As ability to insert fw_cfg entries in QEMU root is useful for firmware development, add a special prefix: unsupported/root/ that