[libvirt] [qemu RFC v2] qapi: add "firmware.json"

[David Gibson]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:09:30 +0200
Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com> wrote:

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> Thank you -- I will replace SLOF with "openfirmware".
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> This also implies I shouldn't add "openbios" separately, which was
> suggested earlier by Gerd -- according to
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBIOS>, OpenBIOS is another
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Right.  Although I think OpenBIOS and SLOF support a disjoint set of
machines.  Openhackware which is (was?) used on some machines is yet
another (very partial) openfirmware implementation.

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> Right, this is about interfaces, so I'll keep "uboot".

Ok.  More specifically I guess this is about firmware <-> guest OS, and
firmware <-> interactive user interfaces.  Firmware <-> qemu interfaces
(fw_cfg, device tree) are a different question.

-- 
David Gibson <dgibson at redhat.com>
Principal Software Engineer, Virtualization, Red Hat
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