Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/5] hw/i386/pc: use PVH option rom

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 01:01:42PM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> Use pvh.bin option rom when we are booting an uncompressed
> kernel using the x86/HVM direct boot ABI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
> ---
>  hw/i386/pc.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c
> index 9ed5063de8..2833b130ba 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/pc.c
> @@ -1252,6 +1252,10 @@ static void load_linux(PCMachineState *pcms,
>                                   initrd_size);
>              }
>  
> +            option_rom[nb_option_roms].bootindex = 0;
> +            option_rom[nb_option_roms].name = "pvh.bin";
> +            nb_option_roms++;
> +

We still need to address Michael's comment from v2 about
machine-type compatibility:
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg587489.html

A question I've sent is quoted below:

| On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 01:57:22PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
| > OK but this is guest visible so needs to be guarded by the
| > new machine type.
| 
| Aren't option ROMs treated like other firmware?  i.e.: guest
| visible, but copied during live migration and not considered part
| of guest ABI.


-- 
Eduardo