[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] load hpet info for HPET ACPI table from qemu

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/14/2010 10:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I think we can be pretty flexible as long as we're careful about 
> releases.  For instance, I've applied Gleb's current patch but won't 
> update SeaBIOS until the interface is worked out.  If we decide to 
> implement a new interface, there's no harm since we've never had a 
> qemu build that had a combination of SeaBIOS and fw_cfg that didn't work.

Or we can choose a new interface number if the interface changes.

One of Kevin's points was that the ACPI tables are a documented 
interface.  AFAIR, the firmware configuration interface isn't.  We need 
to start documenting it (and reject patches without accompanying 
documentation).

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