Re: any opinion on the patch "[RFC PATCH] hw/i386/e820: remove legacy reserved entries for e820"? EOM

[Ani Sinha]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 4:11 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 3:48 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 03:12:51PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 15:11 Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > > > Sorry, no.  Noticed the discussions but don't remember the details and
> > > > didn't took the time to wade through the code to refresh my memory.
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> > > Could you please take a look when you get time? You have the most context
> > > in this space I believe.
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> > Should indeed not be needed unless you use a stone-aged seabios version.
> > But I think you can't simply drop it for live migration compatibility
> > reasons.  So you'll need do the compatibility dance and drop it for new
> > machine types only.  I doubt the benefits outweigh that effort ..
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> Igor what do you think?
Since the static entries are separate from the rom file entries, I
think we are in trouble only if the destination is using an old bios?
Otherwise, the non-existence of the static entries should be simply
ignored right?