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| author | Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> | 2020-05-19 19:17:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> | 2020-07-03 18:16:01 +0200 |
| commit | f7d8afb16dceb780270960692b949329c8752ff2 (patch) | |
| tree | a1e0e54f0891bfb3c0dc99b136020d555035c80a /docs/specs | |
| parent | 6552d87c48679e1ece2da3ddc0947d2146de53ee (diff) | |
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softmmu/vl: Allow -fw_cfg 'gen_id' option to use the 'etc/' namespace
Names of user-provided fw_cfg items are supposed to start
with "opt/". However FW_CFG_DATA_GENERATOR items are generated
by QEMU, so allow the "etc/" namespace in this specific case.
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200623172726.21040-5-philmd@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/specs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt b/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt index bc16daa..3e6d586 100644 --- a/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt +++ b/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt @@ -258,4 +258,8 @@ Prefix "opt/org.qemu/" is reserved for QEMU itself. Use of names not beginning with "opt/" is potentially dangerous and entirely unsupported. QEMU will warn if you try. +Use of names not beginning with "opt/" is tolerated with 'gen_id' (that +is, the warning is suppressed), but you must know exactly what you're +doing. + All externally provided fw_cfg items are read-only to the guest. |