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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
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To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> Since we've wondered off the actual ACPI table stuff into general
> ROM sizing, I'd like to propose some concrete fixes:
>
>   1) We explicitly name the bios file in a .romfile attribute for
>      all ROMs.
>   2) The code that uses .romfile has an expansion for $MACHINETYPE
>   3) We actually symlink all of those together, anyone who wants/has
>      to deal with different versions can downstream.
>   4) The machine types contain size attributes for the ROMs that
>      are generoously larger than the ROMs anyone currently uses.
>
> I think 1..3 should deal with those of us who have to deal with different
> ROM versions on different machine types.
> 4 might be good enough for the ACPI tables if you can bound it.
>
> Dave

I would agree with something like that.

Thanks, Juan.