31 Jan
2019
31 Jan
'19
4:41 a.m.
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@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.