possible bug in efi detection for guest

[daggs]

Greetings Michal,

> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 3:40 PM
> From: "Michal Prívozník" <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> To: "daggs" <daggs at gmx.com>, libvirt-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: possible bug in efi detection for guest
> 
> IIRC you're using gentoo, which is what I happen to have too :-)
> And looking into my system I can see this file:
> 
>    /usr/share/qemu/firmware/50-edk2-x86_64-secure.json
> 
> which defines this pair:
> 
> {
>      "mapping": {
>          "device": "flash",
>          "executable": {
>              "filename": "/usr/share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-secure-code.fd",
>              "format": "raw"
>          },
>          "nvram-template": {
>              "filename": "/usr/share/qemu/edk2-i386-vars.fd",
>              "format": "raw"
>          }
>      },
> }
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug though. The NVRAM has a defined structure 
> and possibly is 32/64bit agnostic (on Intel at least).
> 
> Michal
> 
> 

maybe so, I need to check on the AMD system to verify if it the same.

thanks for the info,

Dagg.