Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU] [PATCH v2 7/8] bootdevice: FW_CFG interface for LCHS values

[Sam Eiderman]

> On 17 Jun 2019, at 17:48, Kevin O'Connor <ke...@koconnor.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:36:54AM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
>> So overall, WDYT?
>> Keep it extendible for a low price of ABI + “bootdevices” name.
>> Or go strict and rename to “bios-geometries”?
> 
> If we add another qemu to firmware interface I think the interface
> should be documented.  I also think that a mix of an ascii and binary
> interface is going to be difficult to describe and document.  I'd
> prefer a pure ascii interface - for example a newline separated list
> of four space separted fields: <device name> <cylinders> <heads> <spt>

We can go pure ascii.
I meanwhile sent a v3 QEMU and v2 SeaBIOS patches for more comments.

Sam

> 
> -Kevin