Re: [Qemu-devel] HPET configuration in Seabios

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/29/2011 01:25 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> >  Can't seabios just poke at the hpet itself and see if it exists or not?
> >
>
> Would be hard for the BIOS to guess the locations of the blocks unless
> we define the addresses used by QEMU as something like base + hpet_no *
> block_size in all cases.

Currently we have a fixed address.  We could do:

 if available in fw_cfg:
     use that (may indicate no hpet)
 elif fixed address works:
     use that
 else
     no hpet


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