Re: [Qemu-devel] [Linaro-acpi] [RFC PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/virt: Dynamic ACPI v5.1 table generation

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 November 2014 13:33, Alexander Spyridakis
<address@hidden> wrote:
> The rational in the proposed approach is meant for cases where the
> user does not want to rely on external firmware layers. While UEFI
> could do what you are describing, the point is to avoid this not so
> trivial overhead in the booting process. Especially in the case of
> thin guests, where another software dependency is undesired.

Can you boot an x86 QEMU/KVM ACPI-using guest without running
the BIOS?

-- PMM