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Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28
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Laszlo Ersek |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28 |
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Thu, 30 May 2013 18:41:54 +0200 |
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On 05/30/13 18:20, Jordan Justen wrote:
> I think ACPI table generation lives in firmware on real products,
> because on real products the firmware is the point that best
> understands the actual hardware layout for the machine. In qemu, I
> would say that qemu best knows the hardware layout, given that the
> firmware is generally a slightly separate project from qemu.
>
> I don't think adding a coreboot layer into the picture helps, if it
> brings along the coreboot payload boot interface as a requirement.
>
> Then again, I don't really understand how firmware could be swapped
> out in this case. What would -bios do? How would the coreboot ACPI
> shim layer be specified to qemu?
I guess -bios would load coreboot. Coreboot would siphon the data
necessary for ACPI table building through the current (same) fw_cfg
bottleneck, build the tables, load the boot firmware (SeaBIOS or OVMF or
something else -- not sure how to configure that), and pass down the
tables to the firmware (through a now unspecified interface -- perhaps
the tables could even be installed at this point). This could introduce
another interface (fw_cfg+something rather than just fw_cfg), but ACPI
table preparation would be concentrated in one project.
I guess.
Laszlo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Gerd Hoffmann, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, David Woodhouse, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, David Woodhouse, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Jordan Justen, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28,
Laszlo Ersek <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Jordan Justen, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Gerd Hoffmann, 2013/05/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Peter Stuge, 2013/05/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Jordan Justen, 2013/05/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, David Woodhouse, 2013/05/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Patrick Georgi, 2013/05/31
Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2013/05/29