From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:05:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: news: Document firmware autoselection for QEMU driver
X-Git-Tag: v5.2.0-rc1~215
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news: Document firmware autoselection for QEMU driver

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 81466c3d55..896700fa97 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -66,6 +66,22 @@
           virtio device version is presented to the guest.
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Enable firmware autoselection
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Libvirt allows users to provide loader path for some time now.
+          However, this puts some burden on users because they need to
+          know what firmware meets their requirements. Now that QEMU
+          ships firmware description files this burden can be moved onto
+          libvirt. It is as easy as setting the <code>firmware</code>
+          attribute in the <code>os</code> element (accepted values are
+          <code>bios</code> and <code>efi</code>). Moreover, libvirt
+          automatically enables domain features needed for firmware it
+          chooses.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Improvements">
     </section>