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

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:40:08AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:40:33PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > Why not just return a newline separated list that is null terminated?
> > 
> Doing it like this will needlessly complicate firmware side. How do you
> know how much memory to allocate before reading device list?

My preference would be for the size to be exposed via the
QEMU_CFG_FILE_DIR selector.  (My preference would be for all objects
in fw_cfg to have entries in QEMU_CFG_FILE_DIR describing their size
in a reliable manner.)

-Kevin
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