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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow additions of ACPI tables from command li
From: |
Blue Swirl |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow additions of ACPI tables from command line |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:59:59 +0200 |
On 2/12/09, Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:53:24PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > On 2/12/09, Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > This is needed to dynamically add SLIC tables with Windows
> > > activation keys.
> >
> > > +--- a/bios/rombios32.c
> > > ++++ b/bios/rombios32.c
> > > +@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ unsigned long bios_table_end_addr;
> > > + #define QEMU_CFG_SIGNATURE 0x00
> > > + #define QEMU_CFG_ID 0x01
> > > + #define QEMU_CFG_UUID 0x02
> > > ++#define FW_CFG_ARCH_LOCAL 0x8000
> > > ++#define FW_CFG_ACPI_TABLES (FW_CFG_ARCH_LOCAL + 0)
> >
> > Why don't you just copy the file hw/fw_cfg.h as is? It's designed to
> > be included even from assembler files.
> >
>
> Bochs is another project. We can copy the file once but than we will have to
> sync it each time it changes in qemu anyway.
But we have to sync anyway even if the defines are directly used in
Bochs files. With fw_cfg.h in Bochs, the sync would be 'cp', instead
of manual editing with copy/paste.
OpenBIOS uses verbatim copies of fw_cfg.h and firmware_abi.h.