Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset

[Gleb Natapov]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:49:03PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > >There would be a discussion to change bioses.
> > >This patches modifies ACPI DSDT directly which
> > >is linked into bios binary image.
> > >This would not be acceptable and it would be a bad
> > >idea to have two bios binary image for piix and q35.
> > >So instead, I'm thinking of dynamic loading ACPI table.
> > >I'd like to hear opinions. What do you think?
> > >  
> > 
> > Could we dynamically generate the necessary tables?  Using iasl is a bit 
> > problematic as we introduce more knobs via qdev.  I expect that we're 
> > going to move to an almost entirely generated set of tables.
> 
> So at least an interface to pass acpi tables to guest bios from qemu
> is necessary. FW_CFG interface seems reasonable.
> Generating tables dynamically sounds attractive. However it seems much
> longer term goal like machine config file.
We already have interface to pass acpi tables to bios, but tables like
DSDT should be part of the bios, not qemu.

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                        Gleb.