absolute firmware path made relocatable in qemu 5.2.0

[Dave]

Hi,

Is seem that absolute firmwarepath compilation option is converted  to relocatable in 5.2.0 qemu.

# QEMU configure log Tue 12 Jan 14:46:41 GST 2021
# Configured with: '../configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc/qemu' '--disable-bochs'  '--firmwarepath=/usr/share/qemu:/usr/share/qemu-firmware'
#

And trying to run the executable

> bash-5.1# ./qemu-system-x86_64  
>       qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin'

If i print out the resultant binary paths

> bash-5.1# ./qemu-system-x86_64 -L help
>       /root/qemu/../share/qemu
>       /root/qemu/../share/qemu-firmware

So there is no way to have a absolute path for firmware /bios and all qemu's that we test need to be at the right directory nesting to find firmware, bios etc or else they all need their own duplicate firmware files. Firmware path needs to honor the absolute paths i believe.

Comments ?

Dave