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Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest |
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Wed, 15 May 2013 08:38:47 +0200 |
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Hi,
> Actually, this is a very good example. In more modern boxes like Flex,
> there's a PCI-Express backplane that all of the nodes are connected to
> with a common set of slots for all nodes. You can configure in firmware
> how the slots map to each node.
Well, we don't configure the dynamic things we have today (s3/s4 enable,
numa nodes, pci hotplug, ...) using some firmware setup utility, but
using qemu command line switches.
So we have no reason to generate acpi tables in the firmware, we can
equally well do it in qemu.
The advantages of doing it in qemu:
(1) We don't have to create/extend fw_cfg interfaces to pass all
sorts of config info.
(2) It decouples qemu and seabios; we don't have to touch seabios for
every new feature which needs something acpi-ish. For example we
could have done pvpanic support without touching seabios.
(3) We don't have to duplicate the logic which compiles acpi tables
from fw_cfg in seabios & ovmf.
The advantages of doing it in seabios:
(*) Your list here, I don't see any.
cheers,
Gerd
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/05/14
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/13] qemu: generate acpi tables for the guest, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/05/16