On 06/14/2010 10:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I think we can be pretty flexible as long as we're careful about releases. For instance, I've applied Gleb's current patch but won't update SeaBIOS until the interface is worked out. If we decide to implement a new interface, there's no harm since we've never had a qemu build that had a combination of SeaBIOS and fw_cfg that didn't work.
Or we can choose a new interface number if the interface changes.
One of Kevin's points was that the ACPI tables are a documented interface. AFAIR, the firmware configuration interface isn't. We need to start documenting it (and reject patches without accompanying documentation).