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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] turn firmware image filename into a machine opt


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] turn firmware image filename into a machine option
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:20:42 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0

Hi,

Am 01.10.2013 14:16, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
>> -bios we're stuck with because it's a legacy
>> option,
> 
> What is legacy about it?
> 
> Well, the x86-centric name of course.  Thats why the machine option is
> named 'firmware' instead.
> 
> It also doesn't use QemuOpts, which is fixed by this patch.
> 
> Anything else?

The basic assumption that there is only one piece of firmware. Just like
-bios, -machine firmware= will allow only one entry. sPAPR has two.

Regards,
Andreas

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