[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Add virFirmware object for use by driver config

[Jim Fehlig]

While refreshing and testing my series to add domain capabilities
and UEFI support to the libxl driver [1], I realized it would be
useful to support the '--with-loader-nvram' configure option as
well. This would allow users/packagers to specify system-provided
firmwares instead of those provided by the Xen installation.

Instead of copying code from the qemu driver, I decided to create
a virFirmware object containing the firmware name (loader) and
associated nvram, along with a few operations on the object. Patch1
introduces the object in src/util/virfirmware.[ch] and switches
the qemu driver to use. The patch could be split along those lines,
but I thought it would be review-friendly to see the movement of
code in a single patch. But it can be split if preferred.

Patch2 adds virFirmware to the libxl driver config. It is unused
in this series, but if this approach is aggreable it will be used
when rebasing the domain capabilities series.

Note that currently Xen does not support storage for non-volitile
variables for UEFI firmware (OVMF), so 'nvram' will be unused for
the time being. Adding a 'nvram' option to libxl.conf can be
deferred until support is added to Xen. But even with this
limitation, folks are using UEFI + HVM guests with xl/libxl and
would like to do the same with libvirt.

Patch1 is a lot of code movement to avoid copying
virQEMUDriverConfigLoaderNVRAMParse (and eventually
virQEMUDriverConfigNVRAMParse). But I've complained about copy/paste
in some of my recent reviews and shouldn't be doing the same in
my own patches :-).

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg01358.html

Jim Fehlig (2):
  driver config: Introduce virFirmware object
  libxl: add default firmwares to driver config object

 po/POTFILES.in               |   1 +
 src/Makefile.am              |   1 +
 src/libvirt_private.syms     |   6 ++
 src/libxl/libxl_conf.c       |  21 +++++++
 src/libxl/libxl_conf.h       |   4 ++
 src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c |  22 +++----
 src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h |   5 +-
 src/qemu/qemu_conf.c         | 127 ++++++----------------------------------
 src/qemu/qemu_conf.h         |   7 +--
 src/qemu/qemu_driver.c       |   2 +-
 src/qemu/qemu_process.c      |   6 +-
 src/util/virfirmware.c       | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/util/virfirmware.h       |  51 ++++++++++++++++
 tests/domaincapstest.c       |   3 +-
 14 files changed, 260 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/util/virfirmware.c
 create mode 100644 src/util/virfirmware.h

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