[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv4 15/15] Pass boot device list to firmware.

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 08:49:59PM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/fw_cfg.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
> >  hw/fw_cfg.h |    4 +++-
> >  sysemu.h    |    1 +
> >  vl.c        |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/fw_cfg.c b/hw/fw_cfg.c
> > index 7b9434f..f6a67db 100644
> > --- a/hw/fw_cfg.c
> > +++ b/hw/fw_cfg.c
> > @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct FWCfgState {
> >     FWCfgFiles *files;
> >     uint16_t cur_entry;
> >     uint32_t cur_offset;
> > +    Notifier machine_ready;
> >  };
> >
> >  static void fw_cfg_write(FWCfgState *s, uint8_t value)
> > @@ -315,6 +316,15 @@ int fw_cfg_add_file(FWCfgState *s,  const char 
> > *filename, uint8_t *data,
> >     return 1;
> >  }
> >
> > +static void fw_cfg_machine_ready(struct Notifier* n)
> > +{
> > +    uint32_t len;
> > +    char *bootindex = get_boot_devices_list(&len);
> > +
> > +    fw_cfg_add_bytes(container_of(n, FWCfgState, machine_ready),
> > +                     FW_CFG_BOOTINDEX, (uint8_t*)bootindex, len);
> 
> I started to implement this to OpenBIOS but I noticed a small issue.
> First the first byte must be read to determine length. Then the read
> routine will be called again to read the correct amount of bytes. This
> would work, but since there is no shortage of IDs, I'd prefer a system
> where one ID is used to query the length and another ID is used to
> read the data, without the length byte. This is similar how command
> line, initrd etc. are handled.
> 
> This would have the advantage that since fw_cfg uses little endian
> format, the length value would easily scale to for example 64 bits to
> support terabytes of boot device lists. ;-)

Yea. Let's just print # of devices as a property, in ASCII.
No endian-ness, no nothing.
Also - can we just NULL-terminate each ID?