Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/7] vl.c: added -kerndtb option

[Eric Blake]

On 01/26/2012 12:34 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 12:23 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> I'd prefer a different solution. As far as I have understood,
>> the dtb is only useful with a kernel, so it could be handled
>> as an optional attribute to the -kernel parameter:
>>
>>     -kernel IMAGE[,dtb=DTB]
>>
>> Of course the same applies to -append, but that's a different issue.
> 
> -initrd as well.
> 
> This would mean you couldn't have a comma in a filename (shouldn't come
> up often, but still ugly).

In other instances where you use a comma to separate arguments and also
want to accept commas in arbitrary file names, qemu has used the notion
of a double comma as being the escape sequence for a single comma in the
intended file name, rather than a separator for later arguments.

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