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+# qboot firmware
+This is a firmware used for initializing QEMU MicroVM-based virtual machines. It initializes the virtual CPU, and
+relocates the Kernel and initramfs to the correct locations and jumps into it. It is the analogue to EDK II on the
+normal systems, but orders of magnitude faster and lighter.
+
+This firmware is usually shipped as a precompiled binary by QEMU, but the version they currently ship has a critical
+bug (https://github.com/bonzini/qboot/pull/28) preventing our VMs from starting which has been fixed upstream,
+but QEMU needs to rebuild their firwmare and Fedora needs to ship an updated QEMU. Since it is not a lot of code, this
+just builds qboot in Bazel, getting us that critical fix immediately.