On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 09:37:41AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 11/24/16 05:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 07:38:35PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >> As a general comment - it does seem unfortunate that we keep building > >> adhoc interfaces to communicate information from firmware to QEMU. We > >> have a generic mechanism (fw_cfg) for passing adhoc information from > >> QEMU to the firmware, but the inverse seems to always involve magic > >> pci registers, magic io space registers, specific init ordering, etc. > > > > FWIW I posted a proposal > > fw-cfg: support writeable blobs > > a while ago to try to address that > > > > Yes, here's the discussion (Feb 2016): > > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg354852.html > > and it was even part of a pull req (Mar 2016): > > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg359348.html > > but it wasn't merged, apparently. > > If QEMU (re)gains this feature, I can try basing the broadcast SMI > negotiation on it. > > Thanks > Laszlo
I dropped since it wasn't used yet. Go ahead and include it in your patchset if you like it. -- MST
