Hah! Thanks, I don't know how I missed the existence of bootindex (given
that it looks like it went in in 2011 and is in the docs once I know the
name to search for.) I was probably conflating it with the index=
option.
I did see the warning, and my reaction was "that must apply to other
uses than
This bug report is invalid, for a less important reason and for a more
important reason.
(1) The less important reason is that "/pci@i0cf8/*@6" is a string that
would never be generated by QEMU, as a bootorder entry. QEMU places
specific OpenFirmware device paths into the "bootorder" fw_cfg file.
