[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv6 00/16] boot order specification

[Blue Swirl]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:56:10PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 11/23/2010 06:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> >On 11/23/2010 09:31 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> >>Anthony, Blue
>> >>
>> >>No comments on this patch series for almost a week. Can it be applied?
>> >
>> >Does that mean everyone's happy or have folks not gotten around to
>> >review it?
>> >
>> >IOW, last call if you have objections :-)
>> >
>>
>> I haven't reviewed this - I trust the author and maintainers to get
>> it right.
>>
>> But I notice the there is no documentation - surely some is needed?
>>
>
> The patch creates Openfirmware device path from qdev
> hierarchy. Each element of a device path depends on type of a bus
> the device resides on. You can find various bus bindings here:
> http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/ and main spec is here
> http://forthworks.com/standards/of1275.pdf. Format in which list of
> device paths is passed to firmware is documented by comment (it is very
> simple). The only thing missing is command line option documentation. I
> will add it and resend if no more changes are needed for patch to be
> excepted.

The patches don't apply anymore due to recent changes to pcnet.c.