[libvirt] [qemu RFC] qapi: add "firmware.json"

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Apr 9 08:19:23 UTC 2018


> > +{ 'enum' : 'SystemFirmwareType',
> > +  'data' : [ 'bios', 'slof', 'uboot', 'uefi' ] }
> 
> The naming here is quite a bad mixture between firmware interface
> ('bios', 'uefi') and firmware implementations ('slof', 'uboot'). There
> could be other implementations of BIOS or UEFI than SeaBIOS and EDK2 ...
> so I'd suggest to rather name them 'seabios' and 'edk2' here instead.

uboot for example implements uefi unterfaces too (dunno how complete,
but reportly recent versions can run uefi shell and grub just fine).

cheers,
  Gerd




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