Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg without opt/

[Paolo Bonzini]

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