[PATCH 1/4] conf: add loader type 'none'

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:40:33AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> On 3/22/23 10:02, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 09:32:21AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> > > VIR_DOMAIN_LOADER_TYPE_OTHER seems more appropriate to indicate that the firmware
> > > will be loaded not by QEMU, but other means (e.g. kernel).
> >
> > I'm not sure we really need a new loader type. Can't we just add
> > '-bios none' unconditionally on RISC-V when a loader path or a kernel
> > path have been provided, either manually or via autoselection?
>
> Ubuntu for RISC-V works in libvirt without '-bios none' and with a -kernel path, so
> it's not like all RISC-V domains requires '-bios none'.

But does it *not* work with '-bios none'? When -kernel is used QEMU
should jump directly into the kernel anyway, so having a BIOS image
loaded shouldn't be necessary. I seem to recall that QEMU had
specific logic for this.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization