the guest RAM configured with @option{-m} and QEMU will fail to start up if
RAM allocation is unsuccessful.
+@subsection RISC-V -bios (since 4.1)
+
+QEMU 4.1 introduced support for the -bios option in QEMU for RISC-V for the
+RISC-V virt machine and sifive_u machine.
+
+QEMU 4.1 has no changes to the default behaviour to avoid breakages. This
+default will change in a future QEMU release, so please prepare now. All users
+of the virt or sifive_u machine must change their command line usage.
+
+QEMU 4.1 has three options, please migrate to one of these three:
+ 1. ``-bios none`` - This is the current default behavior if no -bios option
+ is included. QEMU will not automatically load any firmware. It is up
+ to the user to load all the images they need.
+ 2. ``-bios default`` - In a future QEMU release this will become the default
+ behaviour if no -bios option is specified. This option will load the
+ default OpenSBI firmware automatically. The firmware is included with
+ the QEMU release and no user interaction is required. All a user needs
+ to do is specify the kernel they want to boot with the -kernel option
+ 3. ``-bios <file>`` - Tells QEMU to load the specified file as the firmwrae.
+
@section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
@subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0)
it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a
subset of the image.
+@subsection qemu-img convert -n -o (since 4.2.0)
+
+All options specified in @option{-o} are image creation options, so
+they have no effect when used with @option{-n} to skip image creation.
+Silently ignored options can be confusing, so this combination of
+options will be made an error in future versions.
+
@section Build system
@subsection Python 2 support (since 4.1.0)