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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 07:35:09PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> OVMF uses this feature for a few flags. They are all called
> "opt/ovmf/...". I followed the advice in "docs/specs/fw_cfg.txt" (which
> shouldn't be surprising since I seem to have reviewed every patch for
> that file):

Wait a second.  You are saying upsteam OVMF puts files there.
If users add their own flags that happen to be in opt/ovmf/ then
what happens? And how do they *know* they should avoid that?
There's no warning, guest just breaks in various ways.

This is exactly the kind of mess I was worried about. We have a global
namespace with no way to control what goes where.

opt/ was for end users not firmware.

The right thing to do would be for ovmf to reserve itself
a directory under root.

This really needs more thought.  For now I'd suggest we drop the whole
interface from 2.6 and come back to it after 2.6.

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