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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] [wip] tseg, part1, not (yet) tested


From: Laszlo Ersek
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] [wip] tseg, part1, not (yet) tested
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:42:06 +0200
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On 04/23/15 10:34, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>> I'll ask Jordan too about the dynamic feature detection, because there's
>> another big hurdle with it (selecting a LockBox library instance at
>> runtime, dependent on the presence of SMM). Deciding about SMM support
>> at build time would make things hugely easier (because that's how
>> firmware for physical platforms is built as well).
> 
> piix/q35 falls into the same category I guess.  We are just lucky that
> (a) alot of the chipset-specific initialization is not needed on qemu
> and (b) we can hide the remaining differences in ovmf-specific modules.

That's precisely it.

Thanks
Laszlo




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