From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agXjf-0001cu-8P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:13:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agXjZ-0003nG-EV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:13:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agXjZ-0003nB-8O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:13:01 -0400 References: <20160316181541.GG12454@HEDWIG.INI.CMU.EDU> <56E9A75D.60603@redhat.com> <20160316222436-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <56EA6F7C.6090700@redhat.com> <56EA7B88.8020004@redhat.com> <20160317133036-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <56EAAD58.9080605@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:12:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160317133036-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg without opt/ List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: "Gabriel L. Somlo" , kraxel@redhat.com, Laszlo Ersek , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com 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