From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjxkP-0003hM-Mg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:54:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjxkK-0005qJ-Kh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:54:41 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjxkK-0005q8-BL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:54:36 -0500 Message-ID: <528FC481.6070706@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:54:25 -0700 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1385072461-31317-1-git-send-email-lersek@redhat.com> <1385072499-31367-1-git-send-email-lersek@redhat.com> <528FA5C3.9070809@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BcQtUP6NvvvKglpDmlFFg83jOMwiwRUCJ" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2 PATCH] OvmfPkg: split the variable store to a separate file List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jordan Justen , Laszlo Ersek Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , qemu-devel , Cole Robinson This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --BcQtUP6NvvvKglpDmlFFg83jOMwiwRUCJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/22/2013 01:51 PM, Jordan Justen wrote: > Tangentially related idea: if the user specifies -pflash to a > non-existent file, then QEMU could copy 'pflash-$(arch).bin' from the > roms folder into that file, and then the use it for the flash. It > could make using a flash almost as easy as using the default bios. But that image won't be auto-updated the next time the master is updated. Besides, under sVirt protections of libvirt, libvirt would have to pre-create the file (because libvirt intentionally denies qemu the ability to create files), so libvirt would have to be aware of the default. It's not much harder to make libvirt aware of handling a split image, and a split image is easier to handle than having to copy the default into a destination. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --BcQtUP6NvvvKglpDmlFFg83jOMwiwRUCJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJSj8SBAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqSXUH/2lZUZWpgCP5F9IHz8E/5Yaa KGii21vGC1GCyE3Cp7iyd02bPvHlRNDfRvnTMa0XqWfyi35wNTTmCUgsHkw4IALS N8uTBAMZ1cZ4yKLQICsog6Z7tOvthfzPFYh/Ltxy6dpYAxmVwTe8L5Zmo2IyUQBl eneVsRi9vziu35g/Cs/LiCchldFZJoUb0nmE0KgfuFLosGNkidDFgPp02512+e5P awOTp9aBDx6dGNk4dG+/qU3wpLHKjY9D7FUwJ2cGPhW4a6EqhSqjtFDslA7ZhBnx xny+4b4pIbkbhM3gQ4b4ah9JALIddUFrRhDtNBI38vAEt0sbq2VAfAOwgxrKlj4= =ctsB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BcQtUP6NvvvKglpDmlFFg83jOMwiwRUCJ--