> On 15 Apr 2015, at 14:53, Leon Alrae <leon.al...@imgtec.com> wrote: > > On 15/04/2015 10:09, Liviu Ionescu wrote: >> Peter/Leon, >> >> I'm planning for my future releases, and, to avoid incompatible versions, I >> would like to help with the semihosting configuration issue, to speed up >> things. is there any chance to close this issue in the near future? > > I'm hoping so :) I'm holding up UHI patches respin until we resolve this.
how do you suggest we should proceed? >> we currently have two solutions: >> >> - multiple: --semihosting-config arg="..." >> - a single option, placed at the end, and followed by any number of >> arguments: --semihosting-cmdline $@ \n >> >> both can generate the array of args required by UHI and both can pass args >> with spaces. >> >> the second one is more scripting friendly, and is somehow in the spirit of >> other unix programs that need to pass such arguments. > > I don't have a strong preference here, but I think I would be leaning > towards the second one as it just looks better. On the other hand it > reserves the last position in the QEMU command line, which I'm not sure > if can become a problem at some point? do you have anything specific in mind? I don't know qemu very well, but apart from setting semihosting and kernel args, I doubt there are other use cases to require variable number of arguments. regards, Liviu
