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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI ta
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Gleb Natapov |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:03:52 +0300 |
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 03:40:16PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > Could we just have qemu build the hpet tables and pass them through to
> > > seabios? Perhaps using the qemu_cfg_acpi_additional_tables() method.
> > >
> > Possible, and I considered that. I personally prefer to pass minimum
> > information required for seabios to discover underlying HW and leave
> > ACPI table creation to seabios. That is how things done for HW that
> > seabios can actually detect. If we will go your way pretty soon we will
> > move creation of ACPI/SMBIOS/MP tables into qemu and IMHO this will be
> > step backworkds.
>
> Why would creation of all the tables in qemu be a bad thing or a step
> in the wrong direction?
>
See Avi's answer. All those tables are firmware/OS interface and as such
may (and some definitely do) contain information known only to BIOS.
--
Gleb.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Gleb Natapov, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Gleb Natapov, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Avi Kivity, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Gleb Natapov, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Gleb Natapov, 2010/06/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/06/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Gleb Natapov, 2010/06/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Peter Stuge, 2010/06/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu, Avi Kivity, 2010/06/15