Re: /usr/shared/qemu binaries

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 17:13, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/12/22 14:56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Those are UEFI firmware images which are suitable for using with
> > the arm/aarch64 "virt" board. They're only used if the user specifically
> > asks to use them on the command line (eg with
> > "-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd" or
> > similar).
>
> There must be lots of zeros in there. Maybe we should tell QEMU to
> unpack firmware .gz or .lzo files?

Not hugely keen on adding more "do what I mean" behaviour...

-- PMM