[libvirt PATCH] qemu_firmware: don't error out for unknown firmware features

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 03:55:03PM +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 03:45:18PM +0100, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> > On 1/31/22 15:38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Oh, I hadn't checked how number prioritization affects it. So you're
> > > saying that we stop parsing the firmware file as soon as we find a
> > > valid match. That does indeed limit the impact of the change.
> > 
> > Ah, my memory is failing me. We don't do that. Sorry for the noise. But
> > changing the code to do that should be easy enough.
> 
> I was just checking that but we do parse all files.
> 
> Anyway I was wondering that we could modify the code to make the
> `nvram-template` mandatory base on the firmware mode or if there is no
> firmware mode specified.
> 
> That way we would keep the current behavior for old firmware descriptors
> where no firmware mode exists and with the new mode we could do the
> right thing. Unless I'm missing someting.

Yes, that's what i'll aim todo to address this specific enhancement, but
its just another special case fix.

Regards,
Daniel
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