Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] hw/smbios: support loading OEM strings values from a file

2020-09-23 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Daniel, On 09/23/20 12:41, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Some applications want to pass quite large values for the OEM strings > entries. Rather than having huge strings on the command line, it would > be better to load them from a file, as supported with -fw_cfg. > > This introduces the "path"

[PATCH v2 1/3] hw/smbios: support loading OEM strings values from a file

2020-09-23 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
Some applications want to pass quite large values for the OEM strings entries. Rather than having huge strings on the command line, it would be better to load them from a file, as supported with -fw_cfg. This introduces the "path" parameter allowing for: $ echo -n "thisthing" > mydata.txt $ q