Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu_find_file: check name as a straight path even if it has no '/'

[Edgar E. Iglesias]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:21:55PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 25.05.2012 14:07, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> > Make qemu_find_file() check for the passed in name as a straight
> > pathname even if it doesn't have any path separator character in it.
> > This means that "-bios foo", "-dtb foo" etc will find a file 'foo'
> > in the current directory.
> > This removes an inconsistency with -kernel and -initrd, which both
> > accept plain filenames as meaning files in the current directory.
> > It's also less confusing for the user than an undocumented restriction
> > that "this option accepts a filename, except for the special case
> > where the filename you pass happens not to have a '/' in it, in
> > which case we'll ignore it."
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> 
> Speaking of inconsistencies, I also noticed that the ppc virtex-ml507
> machine relies on the .dtb being in the current directory with
> apparently no way to override. Any chance this can be fixed, Edgar?
> Maybe it can be unified with the dtb handling on ARM or share the same
> QemuOpts?

Yes, absolutely!

Best regards,
Edgar