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authorPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>2020-05-14 15:15:38 +0200
committerPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>2020-07-03 18:16:01 +0200
commit3203148917d035b09f71986ac2eaa19a352d6d9d (patch)
tree99655b5eb28e3ae47c15dfa13409791ccdc0097f /docs
parent993aec27aa39aa90f89f227d8f82cc1f8062386e (diff)
hw/nvram/fw_cfg: Add the FW_CFG_DATA_GENERATOR interface
The FW_CFG_DATA_GENERATOR allows any object to produce blob of data consumable by the fw_cfg device. 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: <20200623172726.21040-3-philmd@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt b/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt
index 8f1ebc66fa..bc16daa38a 100644
--- a/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ To check the result, read the "control" field:
= Externally Provided Items =
-As of v2.4, "file" fw_cfg items (i.e., items with selector keys above
+Since v2.4, "file" fw_cfg items (i.e., items with selector keys above
FW_CFG_FILE_FIRST, and with a corresponding entry in the fw_cfg file
directory structure) may be inserted via the QEMU command line, using
the following syntax:
@@ -230,6 +230,13 @@ Or
-fw_cfg [name=]<item_name>,string=<string>
+Since v5.1, QEMU allows some objects to generate fw_cfg-specific content,
+the content is then associated with a "file" item using the 'gen_id' option
+in the command line, using the following syntax:
+
+ -object <generator-type>,id=<generated_id>,[generator-specific-options] \
+ -fw_cfg [name=]<item_name>,gen_id=<generated_id>
+
See QEMU man page for more documentation.
Using item_name with plain ASCII characters only is recommended.