On 17/03/2016 18:17, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> Alternative: fail on: >> >> - a blacklist of etc/* files including etc/system-states, >> etc/smbios/smbios-tables, etc/smbios/smbios-anchor, >> etc/reserved-memory-end, etc/pvpanic-port, etc/e820, and possibly >> etc/boot-menu-wait > > I think that fails already because qemu throws an error on duplicate > firmware entries.
The problem is that some files are only added conditionally (e.g. etc/boot-menu-wait). > Do we really want shuffle around stuff like this? It means we have to > support both paths in both firmware and qemu for a quite a while for > compatibility reasons. > > Also note that most stuff in etc/ is used by all firmwares, so moving > this to org.seabios looks pointless to me, especially as things might > change over time (i.e. ovmf starting to use cfg options it used to > ignore first, which is the case for etc/boot-menu-wait IIRC, so it > started as seabios only but isn't any more). Stuff that is used by all firmwares could move to org.coreboot/ or org.qemu/, but keeping etc/ as a special case is certainly fine by me. Paolo
