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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option
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Gleb Natapov |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:31:53 +0300 |
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:25:39PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>>> If you care to do this sort of work, you can certainly recompile the
>>> BIOS. The source is there afterall.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, same goes for all the other QEMU options. The question is
>> whether it's useful enough to have an option, or obscure enough not to.
>>
>> I'm inclined to think modifying ACPI tables is obscure, except
>> perhaps for specific tweaks that some versions of Windows or Linux
>> might need to run correctly, or to prevent them from using some
>> hardware feature or other.
>>
>
> In the future, it may be interesting to allow a precompiled ACPI table
> to be loaded and specified as part of a machine configuration file. I
> think it makes a lot more sense if you can actually change the machine
> layout without recompiling.
>
We don't need to change existing ACPI tables (well except of
OEMID/OEMTableID). We need to have a way to provide additional ACPI
tables. This is to support Windows Vista OEM activation, so blame
Microsoft for that :). Actually the need to provide additional ACPI
tables to BIOS exists on real HW too. See following link for a tutorial
how to do it for Award BIOS:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/02/18/improved-way-to-add-slic-slp-20-table-into-bios-acpi-to-activate-windows-vista-oem/
--
Gleb.
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Paul Brook, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option,
Gleb Natapov <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Sebastian Herbszt, 2008/07/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Jamie Lokier, 2008/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Gleb Natapov, 2008/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Anthony Liguori, 2008/07/29
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Gleb Natapov, 2008/07/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Blue Swirl, 2008/07/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/07/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option, Chris Lalancette, 2008/07/29