Re: /usr/shared/qemu binaries

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 1/13/22 18:23, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 17:13, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 1/12/22 14:56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > Those are UEFI firmware images which are suitable for using with
> > > the arm/aarch64 "virt" board. They're only used if the user specifically
> > > asks to use them on the command line (eg with
> > > "-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd" or
> > > similar).
> >
> > There must be lots of zeros in there. Maybe we should tell QEMU to
> > unpack firmware .gz or .lzo files?
>
> Not hugely keen on adding more "do what I mean" behaviour...

Certainly no autodetection (with writable pflash there's the possibility 
of the guest causing real problems), but we already distribute firmware 
as compressed files so the zeroes _are_ causing problems for us as well. 
 We are just telling the users to deal with it.

Paolo