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Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in
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Kevin O'Connor |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU) |
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Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:39:02 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:40:00AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 03/31/14 22:18, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> > The only sticking point remaining would be who gets to generate the
> > Type 0 (BIOS Information) table and when, which is something QEMU
> > should arguably NOT be doing on behalf of SeaBIOS (or OVMF, or ...).
> >
> > I guess everyone's busy with QEMU 2.0, so I'll keep playing with this
> > stuff on my own and bring it up again afterwards.
> >
> > Obviously, more comments and feedback are welcome at any time, should
> > there be any interest :)
>
> Sorry I can follow this discussion only intermittently.
>
> - I think OVMF would be fine with the Type 0 table as-is (it has a
> default table and adheres to field-level patches). Full tables for other
> types would be welcome.
When SeaBIOS generates the smbios table, it creates a hardcoded type 0
sub-table. (See SeaBIOS code src/fw/smbios.c:smbios_init_type_0.) If
OVMF is okay with the same hardcodes, then I'd suggest QEMU create the
table the same way SeaBIOS currently does.
-Kevin
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU),
Kevin O'Connor <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Kevin O'Connor, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Kevin O'Connor, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Gabriel L. Somlo, 2014/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] E820 (Re: [v4 PATCH 00/12] SMBIOS: build full tables in QEMU), Kevin O'Connor, 2014/04/04