On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:40:33AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: > On 3/22/23 10:02, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 09:32:21AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: > > > VIR_DOMAIN_LOADER_TYPE_OTHER seems more appropriate to indicate that the > > > firmware > > > will be loaded not by QEMU, but other means (e.g. kernel). > > > > I'm not sure we really need a new loader type. Can't we just add > > '-bios none' unconditionally on RISC-V when a loader path or a kernel > > path have been provided, either manually or via autoselection? > > Ubuntu for RISC-V works in libvirt without '-bios none' and with a -kernel > path, so > it's not like all RISC-V domains requires '-bios none'.
But does it *not* work with '-bios none'? When -kernel is used QEMU should jump directly into the kernel anyway, so having a BIOS image loaded shouldn't be necessary. I seem to recall that QEMU had specific logic for this. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
