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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>, kraxel@redhat.com, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:12:56PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/03/2016 12:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > 1) files should actually be named etc/ovmf/foo.  OVMF could optionally
> > > accept both the old and the new names for a while, you would decide
> > > whether this is useful.
> > 
> > IOW if etc/ovmf exists, then ignore opt/ovmf? OK.
> > 
> > > 2) in turn, because of (1) even the warning on opt/ should be removed.
> > 
> > If we do 2) then users might put files in etc/ovmf/foo.
> 
> Right, that's exactly the point.  These are user-configurable knobs for
> the firmware (user-configurable meaning they can't be expected to
> recompile QEMU).
> 
> Paolo

Right.

See Markus' answer and my proposal that attempts to be a superset
of this.

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