On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 1/12/22 14:56, Peter Maydell wrote:
Those are UEFI firmware images which are suitable for using with
the arm/aarch64 "virt" board. They're only used if the user specifically
asks to use them on the command line (eg with
"-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd" or
similar).
There must be lots of zeros in there. Maybe we should tell QEMU to unpack
firmware .gz or .lzo files?
May be a crazy idea, but could the above command read format=qcov2 files
that don't need to have the zeros or may be compressed without adding any
more support to QEMU? (Or any other compressed format already supprted by
-drive if there are any.)
Regards,
BALATON Zoltan
