Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini(a)redhat.com> writes:
On 31/01/19 09:40, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Maybe we should just add pflash block properties to the machine? And
>> then it can create the devices if the properties are set to a non-empty
>> value.
> What exactly do you have in mind? Something like
>
> -machine q35,ovmf-code=OVMF-CODE-NODE,ovmf-data=OVMF-DATA-NODE
>
> where OVMF-CODE-NODE and OVMF-DATA-NODE are block backend node names,
> i.e.
>
> -blockdev
file,node-name=OVMF-CODE-NODE,read-only=on,filename=/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd
> -blockdev file,node-name=OVMF-DATA-NODE,read-only=on,filename=...
Yes, though I would call it pflash0 and pflash1.
Digression... should we put traditional BIOS in flash as well? Only for
new machine types, obviously.