On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:12:56PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 17/03/2016 12:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > 1) files should actually be named etc/ovmf/foo. OVMF could optionally > > > accept both the old and the new names for a while, you would decide > > > whether this is useful. > > > > IOW if etc/ovmf exists, then ignore opt/ovmf? OK. > > > > > 2) in turn, because of (1) even the warning on opt/ should be removed. > > > > If we do 2) then users might put files in etc/ovmf/foo. > > Right, that's exactly the point. These are user-configurable knobs for > the firmware (user-configurable meaning they can't be expected to > recompile QEMU). > > Paolo
Right. See Markus' answer and my proposal that attempts to be a superset of this. -- MST