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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu RFC] qapi: add "firmware.json"
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To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, libvir-list@redhat.com, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Gary Ching-Pang Lin <glin@suse.com>, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>, David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>

  Hi,

> It occurs to me that we are actually over-thinking things, by making it
> possible to list a choice of vars files per firmware. We could remove this
> special case by just having separate tpo level firmware entries and a main
> feature flag to say if it is enrolled or not - see below example

That would also make it easier to implement something like ...

    qemu -firmware json=/path/to/firmware/spec.json

... because you simply have two files for the enrolled/non-enrolled
variants.

cheers,
  Gerd