Re: [PATCH 2/2] hw/i386: support loading OVMF using -bios too

2022-01-17 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:05:58PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 14/1/22 19:07, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 04:55:11PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > Traditionally the OVMF firmware has been loaded using the pflash > > > mechanism. This is because it is

Re: [PATCH 2/2] hw/i386: support loading OVMF using -bios too

2022-01-16 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
On 14/1/22 19:07, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 04:55:11PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: Traditionally the OVMF firmware has been loaded using the pflash mechanism. This is because it is usually provided as a pair of files, one read-only containing the code and one writabl

Re: [PATCH 2/2] hw/i386: support loading OVMF using -bios too

2022-01-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 04:55:11PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Traditionally the OVMF firmware has been loaded using the pflash > mechanism. This is because it is usually provided as a pair of > files, one read-only containing the code and one writable to > provided persistence of non-volati

[PATCH 2/2] hw/i386: support loading OVMF using -bios too

2022-01-13 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
Traditionally the OVMF firmware has been loaded using the pflash mechanism. This is because it is usually provided as a pair of files, one read-only containing the code and one writable to provided persistence of non-volatile firmware variables. The AMD SEV build of EDK2, however, is provided as a