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

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Apr 10 06:27:54 UTC 2018


  Hi,

> - I considered adding wildcards (say, blacklist "all" i440fx machtypes,
> present and future, for SMM-requiring OVMF builds), but then you get
> into version sorting and similar mess. I considered fnmatch() --
> basically simple ? and * wildcards -- but that's not expressive enough.

I'd suggest whitelist with wildcards.  So the smm builds would get
"pc-q35-*".

libvirt knows about aliases, so it should be able to handle the "q35"
shortcut like "pc-q35-${latest}".

Or do you see another issue?

cheers,
  Gerd




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