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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] fw_cfg: ignore suffixes in the bootdevice list de
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] fw_cfg: ignore suffixes in the bootdevice list dependent on machine class |
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Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:57:13 -0300 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 01:40:27PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> For the older machines (such as Mac and SPARC) the DT nodes representing
> bootdevices for disk nodes are irregular for mainly historical reasons.
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> Since the majority of bootdevice nodes for these machines either do not have a
> separate disk node or require different (custom) names then it is much easier
> for processing to just disable all suffixes for a particular machine.
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> Introduce a new ignore_boot_device_suffixes MachineClass property to control
> bootdevice suffix generation, defaulting to false in order to preserve
> compatibility.
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> Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <address@hidden>
Thanks, I'm queueing this for 3.1:
https://github.com/ehabkost/qemu.git machine-for-3.1
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Eduardo