On 1/13/22 18:23, Peter Maydell wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 17:13, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> 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?
Not hugely keen on adding more "do what I mean" behaviour...
Certainly no autodetection (with writable pflash there's the possibility
of the guest causing real problems), but we already distribute firmware
as compressed files so the zeroes _are_ causing problems for us as well.
We are just telling the users to deal with it.
Paolo
