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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset
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Gleb Natapov |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset |
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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:14:59 +0200 |
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:23:59AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> >This patches to pcbios is for q35 chipset.
> >This is The change set of da5ff65dc9473e3f069736d38b9a189ea14a67eb
> >in git://git.qemu.org/pcbios.git
>
> Patches against SeaBIOS are also required as we're planning to
> switch to SeaBIOS.
>
> In fact, you don't need to bother with pcbios if you'd rather focus
> on SeaBIOS.
>
> >There would be a discussion to change bioses.
> >This patches modifies ACPI DSDT directly which
> >is linked into bios binary image.
> >This would not be acceptable and it would be a bad
> >idea to have two bios binary image for piix and q35.
> >So instead, I'm thinking of dynamic loading ACPI table.
> >I'd like to hear opinions. What do you think?
>
> Could we dynamically generate the necessary tables? Using iasl is a
> bit problematic as we introduce more knobs via qdev. I expect that
> we're going to move to an almost entirely generated set of tables.
>
Is is almost impossible to dynamically generate DSDT that does
nontrivial things. We can use different SSDT for different chipset
and decide which one to use in runtime.
--
Gleb.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/14] pcibos: initialize q35 chipset., (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/14] pcibos: initialize q35 chipset., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/14] pcbios: add generated files to dot gitignore., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/14] pcbios: remove iasl output file when error., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/14] pcbios: rombios32: make pci memory space assignment 64bit aware., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/14] pcbios: make pci bar initialization to be aware of preferchable memory., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/14] pcbios: enable debug output for debug., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/14] pcibos: add mcfg entry to ACPI table for q35 pcie., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/14] pcbios: make set_e820_range() full 64bit aware., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/14] pcbios: reserve mcfg area by e820 for linux to use mcfg., Isaku Yamahata, 2009/09/30
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset, Anthony Liguori, 2009/09/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/14] pcbios: support q35 chipset,
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