On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:58:50PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:55:14PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé via Devel wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 01:05:43PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani via Devel wrote:
> > > This was not necessary until now since ROMs couldn't have an
> > > associate NVRAM template, and technically speaking they still
> > > can't; however, the varstore template serves essentialy the
> > > same purpose.
> > >
> > > The qemuFirmwareGetSupported() helper is used in two places:
> > > one is the code that is responsible for filling in domaincaps,
> > > where templates are ignored so this change has no impact on it;
> > > the other is the qemufirmware test program, where this value
> > > being reported is useful as it will allow us to confirm that
> > > the JSON firmware descriptors for uefi-vars enabled builds are
> > > parsed correctly.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
>
> Having said that, I'm a bit uncomfortable about the virFirmware
> returned object reporting template for JSON vars without any
> indication that it is is different from the template reported
> for NVRAM vars.
>
> If it is only used in the qemufirmware test that's at least
> safe, but the virFirmware data model is now a trapdoor for the
> unwary....

Yeah, it would probably be good to extend the virFirmware struct so
that it exposes the information in a more semantically meaningful
manner.

Given that I'm trying to get this into the next release and we're
really close to freeze, I'll take the R-b and keep things as they are
for now, but I'll work on that improvement right afterwards.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization

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