Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 5/7] fw_cfg file sort

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Marc Marí <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
>
> This is what it takes to have a sorted fw_cfg file directory.
> Entries are inserted at the correct place instead of being
> appended to the end in case sorting is enabled.
>
> Compatibility fluff (enable sorting for new machine types only)
> isn't there yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Probably best to drop this patch from this series, unless it's needed.

I guess sorting files allows for binary search but it's unrelated to
DMA and needs to be accompanied with guest code (e.g. SeaBIOS) that
actually uses the feature.