[SeaBIOS] [PATCH for-1.10-stable] drop "etc/boot-cpus" fw_cfg file and reuse legacy QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS

[Igor Mammedov]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:36:21 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:

> On So, 2016-11-13 at 23:05 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 04:35:15PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> > > since QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS not going away anytime soon
> > > and serves the same purpose as just added "etc/boot-cpus" fw_cfg
> > > drop support for "etc/boot-cpus" while this code is not
> > > in use yet (i.e. QEMU with "etc/boot-cpus" hasn't been released)
> > > and reuse QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS instead of it.  
> > 
> > I'm okay with this change.  I'd like to get Gerd's comments as well
> > though as the patch is targeted for a stable branch.  
> 
> Looks good to me too.  I should have remembered this before as I
> actually added QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS support to coreboot ...
I'm sorry for making a mess in the first place,
I should have looked more into existing fw_cfg interfaces before
adding a new one.

> 
> Process as usual: commit to qemu first, then seabios (master goes first,
> then cherry-pick into stable), then update seabios binaries in qemu.
ok, resubmitted v2 of QEMU side

> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>