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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support |
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:05:13 -0400 |
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Il 11/06/2013 03:35, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> Two points
> 1. You never explained what you mean by un-hardware like.
>
> Currently bios is in a ROM device, and it has a
> template for ACPI tables together with it.
> This simply moves the tables to a separate ROM
> device (FW CFG), and generalizes the template using
> the linker interface.
> One ROM is hardware-like but two is un-hardware like?
>
> ACPI tables are static so it's likely lots of
> hardware has at least some of them pre-formatted in flash,
> then tweak some things like SRAT a bit.
Also having a "bootstrap processor" was certainly not unheard of some
decades ago. Right now we get all sort of SMM hacks instead of adding
more processors, but it's certainly not un-hardware like.
Maybe we should just have a bytecode interpreter and write the ACPI
generator in that language. :)
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Kevin O'Connor, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Anthony Liguori, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Kevin O'Connor, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Anthony Liguori, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Kevin O'Connor, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Jordan Justen, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Anthony Liguori, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Jordan Justen, 2013/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Anthony Liguori, 2013/06/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Peter Stuge, 2013/06/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, David Woodhouse, 2013/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/06/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/06/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/06/16
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/06/11
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support, Gerd Hoffmann, 2013/06/11